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JOURNAL
of the
FOURTH SESSION
of the
North Carolina^Virginia
Annual Conference
of the
METHODIST CHURCH
L. SCOTT ALLEN, President and Resident Bishop,
the Gulf Coast Area
SESSION HELD AT
BENNETT COLLEGE
Greensboro, North Carolina
MARCH 26-28, 1968
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page No.
TITLE PAGE 1
SECTION NUMBER ONE
A. Secretary's Foreword 4
B. Program of the Annual Conference 5-6
SECTION NUMBER TWO (Organization)
A. Officers 7
B. District Superintendents 7
SECTION NUMBER THREE (Action of the Conference)
A. Minutes of Daily Proceedings 8-16
B. Business of the Annual Conference 16-24
C. Appointments .24-27
SECTION NUMBER FOUR (Directory)
A. Roll and Addresses of Conference Members
on Trial and in Full Connection 28-29
B. Roll and Addresses of Retired Members 29-30
C. Roll and Addresses of Approved Supply and
Supply Pastors 30-31
D. List of Local Preachers 31
E. Lay Delegates (Registered) at the Conference 31-36
F. Ministerial and Lay Delegates to the South-
Eastern Jurisdictional Conference 37
SECTION NUMBER FIVE (Necrology)
A. Roll of Deceased Members of the Conference 38
B. Memorial Service 39
C. Memoirs: L. A. Brown, B. L. Burge 40-41
SECTION NUMBER SIX (Reports)
A. Report of the Historical Society 42-52
B. Trustees Report 52
C. Joint Distributing Committee — Progress Report 53-54
D. Composite Report, District Superintendents 54-58
E. Board of Pensions Report *• • 58
F. Board of Missions Report 59
G. Conference Lay Leader's Report 60" 62
H. Auditor's Report (Ernst & Ernst) 62-64
I. Minister's Wives Report 65
J. Treasurer's Report , G 6 " 83
SECTION NUMBER SEVEN (Resolutions)
A. Organizational Resolution ^
B. Resolution on Bounds and Work of Transitional Trustees 84
C. Resolution to Abandon Preaching Places 84
D. Resolution to Dispose of Lot at Southern Pines 85
E. Resolution from the Interconference
Commission or Campus Ministry 85
F. Resolution from the Committee on Courtesy 85-87
SECTION NUMBER EIGHT
Statistical Tables 88 ' 97
SECTION NUMBER NINE (Pastoral Service)
A. Chronological Roll 98
B. Record of Pastoral Service 98-106
SECTION NUMBER ONE
A. SECRETARY'S FOREWORD
This Journal of the fourth and final session of the North
Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference, because of its histori-
cal significance, was authorized by the Conference by unan-
imously passing the following motion submitted by William
R. Crawford, chairman of the Conference Commission on
World Service and Finance :
"I move that the Secretary of the Conference
be authorized to publish a journal of this his-
toric closing of the North Carolina-Virginia
Conference, and that he be given adequate
funds for this publication as we have done in the
past, and that copies be sent to members of this
session."
I have endeavored to give a true account of the official
proceedings and actions of the Conference. An effort has
been made to include programs, a directory of ministers and
laymen (registered delegates), reports, resolutions, tables,
records of pastoral service and other materials.
I appreciate the confidence that members of the Con-
ference have exhibited, and the recognition they were willing
to give me, in electing me as secretary for a second quad-
rennium, of which I shall not be able to finish due to merger.
I want to thank Miss Johnsie McCorkle, Samuel E.
NeSmith, and James H. McCallum for assisting me during
this service as secretary. I also appreciate the help and co-
operation of Clay Printing Company of Winston-Salem, Inc.,
as well as the work of the typist and cnosultants, who aided
in the preparation of our Conference Journals.
Avery E. Robinson, Secretary
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 5
B. PROGRAM
of the
FOURTH SESSION
of the
North Carolina- Virginia Annual Conference
Southeastern Jurisdiction
The Methodist Church
BENNETT COLLEGE
Greensboro, North Carolina
MARCH 26 - 28, 1968
1
L. Scott Allen Presiding Bishop
J. W. Gwyn, Sr Host District Superintendent
J. C. Peters Host Pastor
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1968
3:00 P.M. — Meeting- of the Board of Ministerial Training
and Qualifications, The Committee on Confer-
ence Relations and other Boards and Agencies.
5:30-6:30 P.M. — Dinner
7:30 P.M. — Holy Communion* Bishop L. Scott Allen,
Celebrant
Communion Meditation . . Bishop L. Scott Allen
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1968
7:00-8:00 A.M. — Breakfast**
8:30 A.M. — Devotion Committee on Worship
9:00 A.M. — Conference Business
Roll Call
Organization of the Conference
Composite Report of the District
Superintendents — J. B. Bethea
Report of the Conference Treasurer
Report of the Conference Statistician
Presentation of General Board
Representatives and other guests
6 FOURTH SESSION
11:45 A.M. — Sermon Bishop Charles F. Golden
12:30 P.M.-1:30 P.M.— Lunch
2:00 P.M. — Conference Business
4:00 P.M. — Memorial Service. .The Reverend Eugene Black
Presiding
Memorial Sermon . . Reverend J. E. McCallum
5:30-6:30 P.M. — Dinner
7:30 P.M. — Christian Higher Education Emphasis
Revered J. E. McCallum, Presiding
Music Bennett College Choir
Address Dr. Major J. Jones, President
Gammon Theological Seminary-
Music Bennett College Choir
Address .... Dr. Isaac H. Miller, Jr., President
-,-, . Bennett College
Offering
Benediction
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1968
7:00-8:00 A.M.— Breakfast
8 :30 A.M. — Devotion Committee on Worship
9:00 A.M. — Conference Business
11:45 A.M. — Ordination Sermon . . Bishop Earl G. Hunt, Jr.
Charlotte Area, The Methodist Church
12:30 P.M. — Reading of the Appointments
Bishop L. Scott Allen
The Benediction
1:00 P.M.— Lunch
! The Communion Service will be held at St. Matthews
Methodist Church, Corner of East Lee and Ashe Streets.
'Breakfast will be served at the motels in which the Con-
ference Members and Visitors will be stopping.
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE T
SECTION NUMBER TWO
ORGANIZATION
A. OFFICERS OF THIS SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE
L. Scott Allen ... President and Resident Bishop
Office: 306 Gay St., Nashville, Tennessee 37201
Avery E. Robinson Secretary
2063 "K" Court, N. W., Winston-Salem, N. C. 27105
James M. Pannell Statistician
3210 Garland Ave., Richmond, Virginia 23222
James W. Gwyn Treasurer
1106 Caldwell Street, Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Clarence M. Winchester Conference Lay Leader
1506 S. Benbow Road, Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Assistant Secretaries
Miss Johnsie McCorkle and Samuel E. NeSmith
Assistant Statistician
Mrs. Mary Gibson
B. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS
Joseph B. Bethea 3301 Barton Ave., Richmond, Va. 23222
David DeBerry 1700 W. Trade St., Charlotte, N. C. 28208
James W. Ferree 2021 Waters Drive, Raleigh, N. C. 27610
James W. Gwyn 1106 Caldwell St., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
FOURTH SESSION
SECTION NUMBER THREE
ACTION OF THE CONFERENCE
A. MINUTES
of the
DAILY PROCEEDINGS
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1968
7:30 P. M.
HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE
Reverend James W. Gwyn, Host District Superintendent, Presiding
Prelude: Music by the Senior Choir of St. Matthews Methodist Church,
Miss Juanita Wells, Organist.
The Call to Worship
The Processional: Hymn No. 470 "God of Grace and God of Glory"
The Holy Communion Ritual Section 830, pp 8-13
Scripture Reading, The Gospel . . Rev. David DeBerry, Superintendent
of the Western District.
Anthem: "God so Loved the World" Senior Choir
Scripture Reading, The Epistle . . Rev. James W. Gwyn, Superintendent
of the Central District.
The Affirmation of Faith: The Korean Creed Section 741
Announcements
Offering: Rev. James W. Gwyn in Charge
(the Offering was received for Liberia Africa Education)
Hymn No. 325 "The King of Heaven His Table Spreads"
The Communion Meditation Bishop L. Scott Allen
Resident Bishop
Invitation to Christian Discipleship
Hymn No. 192 "In Christ there is no East or West"
The Act of Holy Communion: The Bishop and District Superintendents
in Charge.
The Recessional :Hymn No. 165 "Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing"
Benediction and Three-Fold Amen.
Bishop Allen, Celebrant at the Holy Communion Service, used for his
meditation theme: "This Do in Remembrance of Me." The theme was
based on the Scripture found in the 22nd chapter and 19th verse of the
Gospel according to Saint Luke.
The Offering received at the Communion service was: S250.00.
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 9
WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION
MARCH 27, 1968
8:30 A. M.
Devotions were led by the Committee on Worship. T. J. Burley, and
J. T. Jones in Charge.
Hymn No. 1, "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing", was followed by the
Affirmation of Faith. Unison Prayer by all worshipers was led by T. J.
Burley.
Hymn No. 107 "Jesus Calls Us"'
Meditation: T. J. Burley
Closing Hymn
9:00 A. M.
Formal opening of the business of the fourth and final session of
the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference, Bishop L. Scott Allen
presiding.
Bishop Allen called the Conference to order and welcomed the
ministers and laymen to the final session of the conference.
A motion to suspend the 'formal' rules of the Conference was made
on recommendation of Bishop Allen. A motion to that affect prevailed.
The roll of deceased members was called by the secretary, Avery
E. Robinson. The members of the Conference stood and sang, "O They
Tell Me of an Unclouded Day." Prayer was led by G. M. Phelps, a
retired member, in remembrance of the deceased brothers in the Gospel.
The decreased members were: Leander Anthony Brown and Benjamin
Laddy Burge.
The roll of Retired Members was called, followed by the roll of the
Effective Members.
Bishop Allen recognized the secretary, Avery E. Robinson, who pre-
sented an Organizational Resolution (see Resolutions elsewhere) The
resolution was approved with the adding of the name D. S. Harkness
as Associate Reporter to the Religious and Secular Press.
The secretary was asked to name his assistants. He submitted the
names of Miss Johnsie McCorkle and Samuel E. NeSmith.
The Chairman of World Service and Finance, William R. Crawford,
was called to name the Treasurer. He submitted the name of James W.
Gwyn as Conference Treasurer to become a part of the Transitional
Trustee Board of Legal Procedures and Properties.
Bishop Allen recognized David DeBerry who presented the following
resolutions.
1. That the Conference be reduced from four to three districts
so that there will be one in the bounds of each Conference
— Western North Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
2. That the Transitional Trustee Board be improved to carry
on all Conference matters pertaining to their functions, after
this Conference adjourns.
The Resolution was approved and accepted upon vote by the Conference.
Id FOURTH SESSION'
Disciplinary questions 1-3 were called for by Bishop Allen and answer-
ed by respective agencies and persons concerned. Question number 4 was
directed to be answered — "Conference Merged". Question number 5 was
asked and answered in the affirmative.
Bishop Allen called for a resolution from the Commission on World
Service and Finance in regard to its delegated work since such work does
not come under the Transitional Trustees obligations. This resolution was
to be presented at a later time.
Under question 8, the Composite Report of the District Superin-
tendents was made by Joseph B. Bethea (see reports for his recorded
report).
The Character of all the ministerial members of the Conference was
found to be blameless in their life and official administration, as answer
to question 19.
Report of the Treasurer:
The report of the treasure was made by James W. Gwyn. It was
accepted with corrections. The report is to be referred to the Transitional
Trustee Board for auditing. This procedure was approved by vote of the
Conference.
Deletion of R. L. Clifford's Name:
The chair ordered that the name of Richard L. Clifford, who has been
transferred to the Washington Conference, be deleted from the Con-
ference Trustee Board in the "class of 1968. This class will end in Septem-
ber of 1968.
Upon an inquiry by a Mr. Jackson pertaing to vouchers siipporting
and confirming disbursements of Conference Funds, it was ruled by the
Conference that such matters be handled by the transitional trustees.
The Statistician Report: This report was made by James M. Pannell,
Conference Statistician. It was accepted and adopted, (see table)
The Report from the Board of Pensions was called for by the chair. It
was not ready and postponed to a later time.
■K
The Report from the Conference Trustees was made by Clarence M.
Winchester. It was accepted after a question period on its contents, (see
reports)
Announcement of Transfers:
Bishop Allen announced that the following men are transferred into
the North Carolina-Virginia Conference: Edward G. Hinton from the
Central Alabama Conference, and Sylvester T. Gillispie, from the Florida
Conference.
Clarence M. Winchester was appointed as CONVEINER of the Transi-
tional Trustee Board.
Bishop Charles F. Golden, former president of the North Carolina-
Virginia Conference was presented to this final session and received a
standing ovation of appreciation for his guidance in the past.
Visitors and Guests presented:
Joseph Haskins, Chairman of the Committee on Courtesy, presented
the following guests and visitors to the Conference:
Rollin P. Gibbs, Executive Secretary of Lay Activities. W. N. C.
Conf.; Ray E. Whatley, General Board of Pensions: Jack Crumb, N. C.
Council of Churches; Miss Bessie Lee. Secretary to Bishop Allen:
Roscoe Williams, Baltimore Conf.; Mrs. Howard Doyle, Board of
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 11
Missions of the W. N. C. Conf.; John H. Carper, Director of Church
Extension, in the Western N. C. Conf.; Edgar B. Fisher, Dist. Supt.
(Burlington) N. C. Conf.; S. L. Fields, W. N. C. Conf.; Charles D
White, Secretary of the W. N. C. Annual Conference.
James H. McCallum was recognized by the Chair. McCallum presented
a Resolution to abandon as a preaching place and dispose of property
of Asbury Church on the Eastern District. The Resolution was adopted,
(see Resolutions)
Bishop Allen announced that forms for pastoral reports will be sent
to ministers and requested that the district superintendents see that
said forms are filled out by each pastor.
Following the above announcements, the Bishop declared a recess
for fifteen minutes.
11:25 A. M. Business resumed
The chair recognized Joseph Bethea, Chairman of the Committee on
Nominations. He made the following nominations:
Trustees— Class of 1971, James H. McCallum, S. T. Brooks, L. M. Mayfield,
S. T. McCorkle.
Motions by Joseph B. Bethea:
1. That the sermon scheduled to be preached by Bishop Hunt be set
at 11:00 A. M., Thursday morning.
2. That after the reading of the appointments on Thursday, we sing
"God Be With You 'Til We Meet Again", and be adjourned
FINIS.
11:40 A. M.
After singing "O Jesus I Have Promised," Bishop Allen made a
formal presentation of Bishop Charles F. Golden. Then the hymn, "Am
I A Soldier of the Cross" was sung followed by the sermon by Bishop
Golden.
He used St. Luke, the 19th chapter and the 37th, 40th, and 41st
verses as the basis for his message. His theme was, "Tears, Tragedy,
Triumph".
The closing Hymn: "Stand By Me."
Announcements
Benediction by Bishop Golden.
AFTERNOON SESSION
MARCH 27, 1968
2:00 P. M.
Devotions were led by James T. Jones, Chairman of the Committee on
Worship.
NOTE: At the morning session additional guests and visitors were:
Reverends Don P. Stowe, W. N. C. Conf.; M. Marion
Workman, W. N. C. Conf.; Garland Stafford, W. N. C. Conf.
Executive Secretary, Board of Missions; Horace McSwain,
W. N. C. Conf.; Mrs. L. Scott Allen, wife of Bishop Allen.
The chair directed that disciplinary question 20 be answered; "Con-
ference Merged."
12 FOURTH SESSION
Disciplinary questions 21-32 were answered through the report from
the Board of Ministerial Training and Qualifications made by James T.
Jones, chairman. This report was referred to the Board for further study.
Samuel L. Townsend was recognized to make the report from the
Committee on Pastoral Relations. The report was adopted, (see report)
Mr. George M. Curry, from the Methodist Publishing House, was
presented to the Conference and subsequently addressed the group and
presented a check in the amount of $3,785.03. It was moved by S. L.
Townsend and seconded by W. T. Brown that the check be applied to the
Pension Fund. The motion passed.
The Ministers Wives were granted an order of the day at 10:30 a. m.
Thursday, March 28, on a motion passed by the Conference.
J. J. Patterson was requested to make the report from the Conference
Board of Missions. The report was made and accepted by vote of the
Conference, (see report)
Disciplinary question 10 was asked and answered that the support plan
for the district superintendents will remain the same until the end of the
Conf. year. The answer was based on a motion to that effect, passed by
the Conference.
Dr. James C. Stokes, editor and manager of the North Carolina
Christian Advocate was presented to the Conference by Bishop Allen.
Dr. Stokes addressed the Conference and distributed complimentary copies
of the advocate to the ministers.
Admission on Trial:
Robert Howard McDowell was admitted on trial by Bishop Allen.
Theodore Von Carter was admitted on trial by the Bishop also.
4:05 P. M.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
Eugene Black, Presiding
The ministerial members who have died are:
Leander Anthony Brown, effective
Benjamin Laddy Burge, retired
Oscar Davenport, approved supply
The memorial sermon was delivered by James E. McCallum. His theme
was: "A Message From Beyond." (see memorial service program else-
where).
The afternoon session was adjourned at 4:30 P. M.
WEDNESDAY EVENING SESSION
7:00 P. M.
Christian Higher Education Emphasis, J. E. McCallum, presiding
The music was furnished by the Bennett College Choir.
Higher Education addresses were delivered by Dr. Major Jones,
President of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia; and Dr.
Isaac Miller, President of Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Visitors at the evening service were:
W. T. Medlin, Jr., minister of Central Methodist Church, Albemarle,
NORTH CAROL IN A-VIRGINIA ANNU AL CONFERENCE 13
N. C. Mr. Medlin is Secretary Designate of the Western North Carolina
Conference; Dr. J. Elwood Carroll, superintendent of the Albemarle
District, Western North Carolina Conference.
Announcements and remarks by Bishop Allen.
Adjournment of the evening session at 9:30 P. M.
MORNING SESSION
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1968
8:30 A. M.
Devotions led by James T. Jones, Chairman of the Committee on
Worship.
Hymn No. 21 "All People on Earth Do Dwell." Scripture reading
from the second chapter of Romans. A morning meditation was given by
Jones.
Devotions ended with the singing of Hymn No. 416, "In the Cross of
Christ I Glory."
9:00 A. M. BUSINESS SESSION
Bishop Allen called for the report on the Journal. It was made by
Kenneth Frazier and adopted.
Motion :
A motion was made and carried that the Conference Secretary, Avery
E. Robinson, examine and review the Conference Journal at the end
and following the last session without referral to the Committee on the
Journal.
Motion :
A motion was made and executed to set 10:00 A. M. as the time
for the order of the day for election of a reserve ministerial delegate to
the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference to replace Richard L. Clifford,
transferred.
The Bishop recognized William R. Crawford, Chairman of World
Service and Finance. Crawford presented a report which contained the
following Motions:
1. "I move that the Secretary of the Conference be authorized to
publish a journal of this historic closing of the North Carolina-
Virginia Annual Conference, and that he be given adequate funds
for this publication, as we have done in the past, and that a copy
be sent to members of this session."
2. "I move that the transition trustees be authorized to handle all
funds as related to the North Carolina-Virginia Conference be
entrusted to this committee and audited."
The above two motions were properly seconded and passed by vote
of the Conference.
A supplementary report from the Board of Ministerial Training and
Qualifications was made by James T. Jones, Chairman. The report con-
tained the recommendation to recognize the orders from another denomi-
nation for Richard A. Bell, an Approved Supply Pastor. It was presented
to the Conference for consideration. The orders were duly recognized,
(see report)
The Conference Lay Leader, Clarence M. Winchester, was called to
present his report, (see detailed report)
14 FOURTH SESSION
Placques of Appreciation were awarded to Bruce Hargrove, Vice-
Chairman of the Board of Lay Activities; and Earl Contee, Secretary of
the Board.
The Committee on Courtesy presented the following visiting Bishops
to Bishop Allen, who in turn recognized them and introduced them to the
Conference.
They were: Bishop Walter C. Gum, Richmond Area and the Virginia
Conference; Bishop Paul N. Garber, Raleigh Area and
the North Carolina Conference; Bishop Earl G. Hunt,
Charlotte Area and the Western North Carolina Conference.
The District Superintendent of the Eastern District, James W. Ferree
was recognized for the making of remarks of appreciation to the ministers
and laymen of his district for fine cooperation and support given him during
his service as superintendent.
Mrs. Trula McKeithan of Red Springs, N. C. was recognized. She
presented a gift to Rev. Ferree from the Woman's Society of Christian
Service of the Eastern District.
Distributing Committee:
Joseph B. Bethea was called to make a report from the Joint Distri-
buting Committee for pensions. In connection with this report, Rev. Ray
E. Whatley of the General Board of Pensions addressed the Conference.
Tellers named for counting of ballots in the election of a ministerial
delegate to the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. The following were
named:
L. M. Mayfield Central District
J. J. Patterson Western District
J. H. McCallum Eastern District
J. M. Pannell Virginia District
S. E. NeSmith Secretary's Staff
Board of Pensions Report:
The report from the Conference Board of Pensions was made by Oscar
W. Burwick, Chairman. It was accepted and adopted by vote of the Con-
ference, (see report)
Samuel L. Townsend was recognized and presented a token of appreci-
ation to Mrs. J. W. Ferree, wife of Dist. Supt. James W. Ferree.
FIRST BALLOT for election of ministerial delegate to the South-
eastern Jurisdictional Conference.
Number of Ballots Cast 52
Number of Ballots Defective 3
Number Counted 49
Number Needed for Election 25
NO ELECTION
The following ladies were presented to the Conference:
Mrs. Walter Gum, wife of Bishop Gum; Mrs. Earl Hunt, wife of
Bishop Hunt. They were presented by Mrs. Allen, wife of Bishop Allen.
Bishop Paul Garber of the Raleigh Area addressed the Conference
and welcomed members of this Conference into the N. C. Conference
and his area.
Bishop Gum of the Richmond Area addressed the Conference followered
by words of greetings from Bishop Hunt.
Bishop Garber took the chair to preside during the time alloted to
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 15
the minister's wives at 10:30 a.m. Mrs. J. David Kelly presided over a
program rendered by the wives.
The Minister's Wives Program consisted of an introduction of the
officers of their association. An orchid was presented to Mrs L Scott
Allen by Mrs. J. W. Gwyn. Mrs. Kelley, president of the association-
Mrs. James W. Ferree; Mrs. James W. Gwyn; Mrs. Joseph B. Bethea-
and Mrs. Cleo Sharpe were recognized and presented corsages. The
Minister's message to the Conference was delivered by Mrs. Kelley. (see
their report in reports section of the Journal)
SECOND BALLOT for election of ministerial delegate to the
Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference.
Number of Ballots Cast 48
Number of Ballots Void
Number of Ballots Counted 48
Number Needed for Election 25
NO ELECTION
Report of the Historical Committee was made by J. David Kelley.
It was moved that this report be printed in the Journal as a closing chapter
to the Committee. The motion passed by vote of the Conference (see report).
THIRD BALLOTT for the election of ministerial delegate to the
Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. On this Third Ballott the
results were:
Number of Ballots Cast 43
Number of Ballots Counted 43
Number of Ballots Void
Number Needed for Election 22
Number Received by Individual .... 32
J. DAVID KELLEY WAS ELECTED ON THIS THIRD BALLOT.
Motion A motion was made and carried to extend the time in order to
complete Conference Business.
G. M. Phelps, retired minister of the Conference was recognized.
He presented a token of appreciation to J. W. Gwyn for Mrs. Gwyn.
Rev. Phelps addressed the Conference and stated that he had answered
50 roll calls during his ministry and gave a review of his thankful years
as a minister of the gospel for so many years.
A Resolution was made by David DeBerry from the Executive Com-
mittee of the Interconference Commission on Campus Ministry, meeting
at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, High Point. N. C. on February
12, 1968.
Motion
It was moved by J. E. McCallum, that pursuant to paragraph 1451, that
the Conference confirm the name of Mrs. Marionette Sprave as Director
of Music in Roanoke, Virginia. The motion passed.
11:45 A. M.
Ordination Service
Bishop L. Scott Allen, Presiding
Scripture by James W. Gwyn — John 17: 1-11.
Hymn No. 92, "Amazing Grace. How Sweet the Sound"'.
The Ordination Sermon was delivered by Bishop Earl G. Hunt. Jr.
16 FOURTH SESSION
of the Charlotte Area, Southeastern Jurisdiction. His Text was: John
1:29. His Theme was: "Gentlemen, the King".
Hymn No. 335, "Let Zion Watchmen All Awake".
Richard A. Bell took the examination for deacon orders and had his
orders from another denomination recognized.
Clyde E. Dungee was ordained elder in the Methodist Church.
Participating in the Ordination Service were the district superin-
tendents, Bishops Allen. Hunt, Gum, and Garber.
Hymn No. 87, "Take the Name of Jesus With You", was sung by the
congregation.
The report from the Committee on Courtesy was not read from the
Conference floor, but is printed in the Journal, (please see)
The Reading of Appointments by Bishop L. Scott Allen
James H. McCallum was appointed District Superintendent of the
Eastern District; David Deberry was appointed District Superintendent
of the Virginia District, and James C. Peters was appointed District Super-
intendent of the Central District.
The Closing Hymn, "GOD BE WITH YOU 'TIL WE MEET AGAIN,"
was sung by the congregation.
The Benediction, Bishop Allen
Adjournment
Avery E. Robinson, Secretary
B. THE BUSINESS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The Minutes of the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference. Held
in Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina from March 27th, 1968,
through March 28th, 1968 . Bishop L. Scott Allen, Presiding. Date When
Organized: August 11th. 1964. Number of This Session: Fourth and Final.
PART I. ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL BUSINESS
1. Who are elected for the quadrennium:
Secretary? Avery Edward Robinson, 2063 "K" Court, N. W.. Winston-
Salem, North Carolina 27105
Statistician? James M. Pannell, 3210 Garland Street. Richmond.
Virginia 23222
Treasurer? James W. Gwyn (to serve as a member of Transitional
Trustee Board), 1106 Caldwell Street, Greensboro, North Carolina
27406
2. Is the Annual Conference incorporated? No.
3. Bonding and auditing:
a) What officers handling funds of the conference have been bonded,
and in what amounts? James W. Gwyn, Treasurer.
b) Have the books of said officers or persons been audited? Yes.
4. Have the conference boards, commissions, and committees been ap-
pointed or elected? CONFERENCE MERGED
a) Board of Ministerial Training and Qualifications?
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b) Committee on Conference Relations?
c) District Committees on Ministerial Qualifications?
d) Committee of Investigation?
e) District Boards of Church Location and Building?
f) Board of Trustees of the Annual Conference?
g) Commission on World Service and Finance?
h) Commission on Town and Country work?
i) Deaconess Board?
j) Board of Missions?
k) Board of Education?
1) Board of Christian Social Concerns?
m) Board of Lay Activities?
n) Board of Hospitals and Homes?
o) Board of Evangelism?
p) Board of Pensions?
q) Commission on Christian Vocations?
r) Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service?
s) Commission on Minimum Salaries?
t.) Commission on Promotion and Cultivation?
u) Television, Radio and Film Commission?
v) Committee on Publishing Interests?
w) Optional commissions and committees?
5. Have the secretaries, treasurers, and statisticians kept their respective
records upon and according to the forms prescribed by The Methodist
Church? Yes.
6 .What is the report of the statistician? See Table of Contents in Journal
7. What is the report of the treasurer? See Table of Contents in Journal
8. What are the reports of the district superintendents as to the status of
the work within their districts? See Conposite Report of district
Superintendents.
9. What is the schedule of minimum salaries for pastors? See Reports
Section in Journal. NOTE: This schedule is effective only until
merger is completed.
10. What is the plan and what are the approved claims for the support of
the district superintendents for the ensuing year? The Three district
superintendnts shall receive $7,300.00 salary; $1,000.00, rent; $700.00,
travel; 'annual plan) until merger is completed.
11. What amount has been apportioned to the pastoral charges within the
conference to be raised for the support of conference claimants?
Balance of amounts listed on poge 34 in 1967 Journal.
12. What are the apportionments to this conference: CONFERENCE
MERGED (see 1967 Journal for information pertaining to these appor-
tionments)
a) For the World Service Fund?
b) For the Episcopal Fund?
c) For the General Administration Fund?
d) For the Interdenominational Co-operation Fund?
e) For the Temporary General Aid Fund?
f) For the Jurisdictional Administration Fund?
g) For the maintenance of our institutions of higher learning?
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13. What is the percentage division between world service and conference
benevolences for the current year: World service? %; Conference
benevolences? % Conference merged (see 1967 Journal for prior
report.
14. What aTe the reports, recommendations, and plans of the conference
agencies:
a) What is the report of the Board of Pensions and what appropriations
for conference claimants are reported and approved? See Report
Section in Journal.
b) What is the report of the Board of Missions of disbursements of
missionary aid within the conference? See Report Section in
Journal.
c) What is the report of the Commission on World Service and
Finance? See Report Section.
d) What is the report of the Commission on Christian Vocations? No
report at this final session.
e) What are the other reports? See Report Section in Journal.
15. What Methodist institutions or organizations are approved by the
conference for annuity responsibility? None.
16. What date is determined for Golden Cross Enrollment Sunday? Con-
ference Merged.
17. Conference lay leader:
a) Name and Address: Clarence M. Winchester, 1506 S. Benbow Rd..
Greensboro, N. C.
b) What is his report? See Reports Section in Journal.
c) Who are district and associate district lay leaders? See complete
roster in Journal.
18. What local churches have been:
a) Organized? None.
b) Merged? None.
c) Discontinued? Asbury Methodist Church, Fayetteville, N. C.
d) Relocated, and to what address? None.
e) Transferred into this conference from the Central Jurisdiction, and
with what membership:
1) This year? None.
2) Previously? None.
PART II. PERTAINING TO MINISTERIAL RELATIONS
19. Are all the ministerial members of the conference blameless in their
life and official administration? Yes.
20. Who constitute the Conference Committee of Investigation? CONFER-
ENCE MERGED
21. Who are the approved supply pastors:
a) Student approved supply pastors and in what schools are they
enrolled? William Howell, Gammon Seminary. Atlanta, Georgia;
Eugene Victor Maafo, Duke Divinity School, Durham, N. C,
Belvin Jessup, A. & T. University, Greensboro. N. C; Andrew
Brown, A. & T. University, Greensboro. N. C; James Monroe
McLean, University of N. C. at Charlotte, N. C, Ralph Allen Frone-
berger, Hood Seminary, Salisbury, N. C, David Dunlap, to enroll
in Gammon Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.. has just recently graduated
from A. & T. Univ., Greensboro, N. C.
b) Full-time approved supply pastors and what progress has each made
in the course of study? All the below named persons have completed
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFER ENCE in
(graduated) from the Course of Study: Howard F. Barclay, William
I. Johnson, Willie L. Mapper, Richard A. Bell, Moses L. Prather,
Walter N. Johnson, George W. Fowler, and Hori W. Spencer
c) Part-time approved supply pastors and what progress has each made
in the course of study?
COMPLETED COURSE OF STUDY: Stewart E. Black, Richard W.
Hall, III, Walter Hurd, Bert Dula, Arthur Hall. Buford Miller.
Sophia East, Paul G. Carter, John F. McEachin, and Otto Withers'
IN THE INTRODUCTORY STUDIES: Medway Brown.
COMPLETED 1st YEAR and Progressing: Frederick D. Hobbs,
Johnny Boyd.
COMPLETED 2 YEARS but not progressing: John A. Gray.
COMPLETED 3 YEARS but not progressing: Marion W. Walton.
NOT ENROLLED nor seeking enrollment: G. L. Warren, I. C.
Spinks, W. T. Rankin, Benton Hill. J. O. Hill is presently
seeking admission in the Course of Study.
22. What approved supply pastors are credited with annuity claim on
account of full-time service during the past year? Walter N. Johnson,
Howard F. Barclay, George W. Fowler, Willie L. Napper, Richard A.
Bell, William I. Johnson, Moses L. Prather, Hori W. Spencer.
23. What preachers, coming from other evangelical churches, have had
their orders recognized:
a) As local deacons? Richard A. Bell
b) As local elders? None
24. Who have been admitted from other evangelical churches as traveling
preachers :
a) As members on trial: Deacons? None.
Elders? None.
b) As members in full connection: Deacons? None.
Elders? None.
25. Who are admitted on trial: (List alphabetically. See note under question
33.)
a) With degrees from approved colleges and credits from approved
schools of theology? None.
b) With degrees from colleges not accredited by the University Senate
and credits from approved schools of theology? None.
c) With degrees from approved colleges and completion of the intro-
ductory studies for the ministry and the first two years course of
study? Theodore Von Carter
d) With partial college credit, completion of the four-year course of
study, and six years' service as approved supply pastors? Robert
Howard McDowell
26. Who are continued on trial; and what progress have they made in their
ministerial studies:
a) As students in approved schools of theology? Wilbert David Talley —
will complete second year of Seminary Training in June of 1968.
b) As graduates of approved schools of theology? Peter E. A. Adoo
c) In the four-year course of study? Japeth F. A. Kerr, Completed the
course of study; Joseph Alfred Carter, Completed course of study.
d) In the four graduate courses of study? None.
27. Who on trial are discontinued? Thomas Jefferson Curry, Jr.
28. Who are admitted into full connection? (List alphabetically. See note
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under question 33.) None.
29. Who have been elected deacons: (See note under question 33.)
a) Theological Students? None.
b) Members on trial in the course of study? None.
c) Approved supply pastors? None.
d) Missionaries? None.
e) Chaplains? None.
30. Who have been ordained deacons? (See note under question 33.) None.
31. Who have been elected elders: (See note under question 33.)
a) Theological graduates? None.
b) Course of study graduates? Clyde E. Dungee, Sr.
c) Missionaries? None.
d) Chaplains? None.
32. Who have been ordained elders? (See note under question 33.) Clyde
E. Dungee, Sr.
33. Who have been admitted or ordained to accommodate other conferences:
None.
a) Admitted: On trial?
Into full connection?
b) Ordained after election by this conference: Deacons?
Elders?
c) Ordained after election by other conferences: Deacons?
Elders?
(NOTE: Members of this conference who were admitted or ordained
through the accommodation of other conferences during the year
should be listed under Questions 24-32, whichever are appropriate,
along with their fellow members who were admitted or ordained at
the current session. In each case the date and accommodating con-
ference should be recorded. Under Question 33 should be listed persons,
now members of other conferences, who were members of this confer-
ence only during the period necessary for their admission or ordination.
In each case the conference of which the person is now a member, and
any other conference involved, should be recorded. Transfers preceding
or following actual service in this conference should be listed under
Questions 36-37.1)
34. Who are readmitted:
a) As deacons? None.
b) As elders? None.
35. What retired members have been made effective? None.
36. Who have been received by transfer? (List alphabetically. If probationer,
so indicate. See note under question 33.)
Sylvester Gillispie, Florida Conference, March 27, 1968
Edward G. Hinton, Central Alabama Conf., March 27, 1968
37. Who have been transferred out? (List alphabetically. See note under
question 33.)
Richard L. Clifford, Baltimore Conference, February 1, 1968
Who have had their conference membership terminated:
a) By voluntary location? None.
b) By involuntary location? None.
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c) By withdrawal? None.
d) By judicial procedure (expelled)? None.
39. Deceased: (List alphabetically.)
a) What ministerial members have died during the year?
Leander A. Brown, Born Nov. 5, 1901, Died Jan. 16, 1968, Date re-
ceived into full connection in a conference Oct. 1931.
Benjamin L. Burge, Born July 3, 1888, Died Jan. 7, 1968, Date re-
ceived into full connection in a conference Nov. 1914
b) What approved supply pastors have died during the year? Oscar
Davenport, July 9, 1967
c) What deaconesses have died during the year? None.
40. Who are the supernumerary ministers, and for what number of years
consecutively has each held this relation? None.
41. Who are granted subbatical leave? William R. Crawford
42. What ministerial members have been retired: (List alphabetically.)
a) This year? None
b) Previously? Alter, Ernest E.; Bynum, Charles G.; Caldwell, Gilbert
H.; Dula. J. Q.; Friend, Ira A.; Green, Herbert A.; Holland, James
H.; Jefferson, M. M.; Langford, John W. Sr.; McCallum, Felton F.;
McCallum, Robert F.; McLeod, Edward M.; Patterson, Geo. W.;
Phelps, Grandison M., Sr.; Polk, William H.; Sharpe, Robert C.
43. What approved supply pastors have been retired:
a) This year? None.
b) Previously? Harvey J. Lambert. James B. McKay, Joseph E. Tyes,
Walter Davis, Jefferson McCallum, Turner D. McCorkle.
44. Who are appointed to attend school? (List alphabetically all those whose
prime appointment is to attend school.)
a) Members on trial? None.
b) Members in full connection? Charles W T . Beane
45. What is the number of:
a) General Information: Pastoral charges? 94; Approved supply pastors?
35; Received on trial? 1; Received into full connection? 0; Trans-
ferred in? 2; Transferred out? 1; Received from other evangelical
churches? None; Readmitted? 0; Discontinued? 1; Withdrawn? 0;
Expelled? 0; Located? 0; Deceased? 3; Local preachers? 10; Women
under appointment? 1; Retired made effective? 0; Retired serving as
supply pastors? 2; District parsonages: 1; Value; Indebtedness.
b) Number of ministers:
(1) On trial:
(a) As pastors? 5
(b) Under special appointment? 1
(c) Appointed to attend school?
Total on trial? 6
(2) In full connection:
(a) Effective:
(i) As pastors and district superintendents? 56
(ii) Under special appointment? 4
(iii) Appointed tc attend school? 1
(iv) On sabbatical leave? 1
Total effective? 62
(b) Retired? 16
(c) Supernumerary?
Total ministerial members: (Add total on trial, effective, retired,
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FOURTH SESSION
and supernumerary.) 84
46. What other personal notation should be made? Corrections in pension
credit granted for approved supply service during previous years. The
continued answer to this question will follow question 51 below.
PART III. CONCLUDING BUSINESS
47. What are the detailed objectives of this conference for the coming year?
• See supplementary report.) Conf. Merged
48. Where shall the next Conference Session be held? Conference Merged.
49. Is there any other business? No.
50. What changes have been made in appointments since last Annual Con-
ference Session? See list of appointments.
51. Where are the preachers stationed for the ensuing year?
appointments.)
CONTINUED ANSWER TO QUESTION No. 46
(See list of
ACTIVE SUPPLIES
BANNER, Archie
BELL, Richard A.
BOWMAN, John L.
BROWN, Medway
BUIE, Sampson
CAMPBELL, Eugene C.
CARTER, Paul G.
DULA, Bert J. Sr.
DUNLAP, David
EAST, Mrs. Sophia Jane
ELDRIDGE, Leonard Blake
ENNIS, Roy S. (W)
FOWLER, George Wyatt
GAMBLE, James William
GRAY, John A.
HALL, Arthur Ruff
Correct record to delete 1 yr., 62-63 and
delete from q. 22 in the 1964 journal.
Correct q. 22 in the 1965 journal to read
Richard A. Bell instead of Joseph A.
Bell.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1964 Journal
Delete from q. 22 in the 1965 and 1966
Journals
Correct record to delete for 1961-62 and
delete from q. 22 in the 1964 Journal.
Delete from q. 22 in 1961-62-64 Journals.
All service 1940-65 PT(was part time)
Grant 3 yrs., 1957-60
Delete from q. 22 in 1961-62-63-64 Jour-
nals All 1945-67. (part time)
Correct record to delete for 1964-65 and
grant 3/4 yr. for 1966-67.
Correct record to delete for 1962-63 and
delete from q. 22 in the 1964 Journal.
Delete fromq. 22 in the 1961-62-63-64 Jour-
nals.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1964 Journal.
Delete from q. 20 in the 1953 Journal
and grant 1 year, 1966-67.
Supernumerary from 1950-June 1964.
Effective relation with annuity credit
6/7/64 to 6/12/66.
Correct record to delete for 2 yrs., 1962-
64 (part time)
Correct record to delete 2 yrs. 1961-63
PT and delete from q. 22 in the 1964
Journal.
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ACTIVE SUPPLIES - Continued
HAYDEN, William Jones
HILL, John F.
HOLLAND, Ralph
HOWELL, William B.
JOHNSON, WiUiam Isaiah
JONES, Luther Harding
LEAZER, Willie V.
LEWIS, Henry
McEACHIN, John Franklin
McGIRT, Daniel Robert
McLEAN, Emma Ruth
McLEAN, James Monroe
McRAE, John W.
MARTIN, Robert Marion
MILLER, Buford Curbin
NAPPER, Willie Lorenza
PRATHER, Moses Linwood
RANKINS, W. Turner
RANSOM, Herbert Bernard
SCOTT, Clifton
SHARPE, Robert Edward
SLADE, G. Wilbur
SOUTH, Jack L.
SPENCER, Hori Wrightson
SPENCER, J. C.
TISDALE, Lieutenant T.
WALTON, Marion William
WARREN, Garland Lash
WILLIAMS, Esau Alfred
Grant 3 yrs., 1955-57, 1961-62
Delete from q. 22 in the 1964 Journal.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1964 Journal.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1964 Journal.
Grant 6 yrs. 1946-52.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62-63-64
Journals.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62 Journals.
Delete from q. 22 the 1963 Journal.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-67 Journals.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62-63-64
Journals.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62-63-64
Journals.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62-63-64
Journals.
Correct record to delete 1 yr., 1963-64
(part Time)
Delete from q. 22 in 1961-62-63-64 Jour-
nals.
Delete from q. 22 in 1961-62-63-64 Jour-
nals.
Grant 3 yrs., 1957-60
Delete from q. 20 in 1953 Journal, Grant
4 yrs. 1964-68.
Correct record to delete, for 1962-63 and
from q. 22 in the 1964 Journal.
Delete from q. 20 in the 1953-54-56 jour-
nals and q. 22 in the 1957-58-59 journals
- part time.
Correct record to delete for 1962-63 and
from q. 22 in the 1964 journal.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62-63 jour-
nals.
Correct record to delete 2 yrs., 1961-63
All part-time.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1964 journal.
Grant 2 yrs., 1950-52.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62-63-64
journals.
Correct record to delete 2 yrs., 1962-64
Correct record to delete 1 yr., 1962-63.
Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62-63-64
journals.
Correct record to delete 1 yr., 1962-63.
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ACTIVE SUPPLIES - Continued
WITHERS, Otto Abraham Delete from q. 22 in the 1961-62-63-64-67
journals.
BAILEY, Charles William Grant 2 yrs., 1944-46.
BROWN, Beverly Grant 3 yrs., 1940-13.
CARTER, Joseph A. Jr. Grant 1 yr., 1966-67
SHIVER, James Henry Grant 1 yr., 1958-59.
SPECIAL CONFERENCE CLAIMANTS
COLTRANE, Leslie Wylie Grant 1 yr. for total of 6 yrs., 1950-52
and 1957-61.
DAVENPORT, Oscar S. (Bessie) Correct record to 10 yr. minimum
DAVIS, Walter F. Correct record to 7 yrss. 1958-65.
LAMBERT, Harvey Jackson Correct record to 8 yrs., 1959-67.
McCORKLE, Turner, Dodson Adjust to 9 yrs., 1945-46 and 1948-56.
MONROE, John Edmond Adjust record to 8 yrs., 1954-62.
RUSH, Epriam Alexander Delete from q. 20, 1955 journal - Retired
Iservice. Adjust record to 19 x 2 yrs. 1928-40
and 1946-54.
C. NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS 1968
CENTRAL DISTRICT
(These Fall in the Bounds of the Western North Carolina Conference)
District Superintendent, James C. Peters
Charge Pastor
1. Asheboro-Mitchell (Belvin Jessup)
2. Bass Chapel-Raleigh Cross Road J. W. Jones
3. Brown Summit (Arthur Hall)
4. Collins Grove-Holmes Grove (John A. Gray)
5. Empire Charge (G. L. Warren)
6. Glenola-Liberty (Otto Withers^
7. Browning Chapel (Greensboro) (Andrew Brown >
8. Mount Tabor (Greensboro) (G. M. Phelps)
9. Saint Matthews (Greensboro) Joseph B. Bethea
10. Union Memorial and Celia Phelps (Greensboro) James W. Ferree
11. Warren Street-Mt. Carmel (Greensboro) J. B. Jowers
12. Brooks Memorial (High Point) D. S. Harkness
13. Saint Mark (High Point) Liston Sellers
14. Laughlin Memorial-Summerfield (Walter N. Johnson)
15. Leaksville H. A. Smith
16. Lexington-Chesnut Grove Brooks Temple Kenneth McNeil
17. Madison Charge (David Dunlap)
18. Mt. Airy-Pilot Mtn.-Advance (P. G. Carter)
19. Mt. Zion-Zion Hill (I. C. Spinks>
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20. New Goshen Eugene Black
21. Piney Grove (Mrs. Sophia East)
22. Ramseur Circuit C. E. Dungee
23. Reidsville-Wenworth Cecil Marcellus
24. Red Bank-Rural Hall (Buford Miller)
25. Sadelia-Randleman-St. Peters (W. T. Rankins)
26. Saint John-Hoover Chapel Glenn A. Brooks
27. Trinity W. T. Brown
28. Wesley Chapel-Chapel Hill (Willie Napper)
29. Saint Andrews-Oak Grove (W.-S.) Walnut Cove .. L. M. Mayfield
30. Saints Home-Kernersville (W.-S.) Avery E. Robinson
31. Saint Paul (W.-S.) James W. Gwyn
32. Asheville James T. Jones
33. Charlotte . . J. E. McCallum
34. Elkin-Jonesville W. R. Royster
35. Gastonia-Bessemer City To Be Supplied
36. Hickory Conover J. J. Patterson
37. Hintons Chapel (Marion W. Walton)
38. Kings Mountain Charge T. A. Powell
39. Lenoir-Harpertown . . M. S. Laughlin
40. Lowesville Ct R. H. McDowell
41. Marion Ct (J. M. McLean)
42. Mt. Holly (Johnny G. Boyd)
43. Mooresville Ct A. W. Stowe
44. Newton Ct , O. W. Burwick
45. Shelby-Philadelphia Marshall McCallum
46. Stanley-Hunters C. W. Jenkins
47. Statesville, St. Home, Boone C. W. Bailey
48. Granite Falls & Beaver Creek ( J. B. Dula)
49. Forest City W. T. Robinson
( ) Supply
EASTERN DISTRICT
(These Fall Within the Bounds of the North Carolina Conference)
District Superintendent, James H. McCallum
Charge Pastor
1. Cool Springs J. F. Sawyer
2. Durham Kenneth Fraizer
3. Fayetteville E. G. Hinton
4. Goldsboro (Benton Hill)
5. Hamlet Philadelphia C. E. Strickland
6. Hoffman E. J. Jones
7. Laurinburg Circuit S. L. Townsend
8. Lumberton-New Zion W. P. Cole
9. Maxton O. M. Graham
10. Oxford Circuit (T. V. Carter)
11. Raleigh . S. T. Gillespie
12. Red Springs Circuit (J. F. McEachin)
13. Red Springs-Pembroke . W. F. Elliott
FOURTH SESSION
14. Rowland Circuit-Bolton J. W. Gamble
15. Sanford Circuit To Be Supplied
16. Union Parish (I. A. Friend)
17. Walls Chapel-Mount Zion (J. O. Smith)
18. Wilmington J. H. Shiver
< ) Supply
VIRGINIA DISTRICT
(All Within the Bounds of the Virginia Conference)
District Superintendent, David DeBerry
Charge Pastor
1. Alexandria: Roberts Memorial Samuel E. NeSmith
2. Alexandria: Woodlawn Douglas E. Moore
3. Arlington Wilbert Talley
4. Christiansburg (Stewart E. Black)
5. Edwardsville J. David Kelly
6. Falls Church Joseph F. Haskins
7. Hamilton-Leesburg Lenneau H. Davis
8. Harrisonburg-Bridgewater (Richard A. Bell)
9. Horntown (Howard F. Barclay)
10. Leemont Thaddeus H. Williams
11. Leesville (William I. Johnson)
12. Lexington-Beuna Vista-Covington Carl W. Renick
13. Lynchburg-Bedford ,. . Terry J. Burley
14. Middleburg (Frederick D. Hobbs)
15. Norfolk-Pleasant Ridge Godfrey L. Tate
16. Penhook-Boones Mill To Be Supplied
17. Pittsville (George W. Fowler)
18. Purcellville Otis L. Jasper
19. Richmond: Asbury James M. Pannell
20. Richmond: Wesley Memorial John W. Curry, Jr.
21. Roanoke-Salem-Buchanan Lonnie J. Thomas
22. Staunton-Grottoes Rawle S. Porte
23. Wachapreague Japheth F. A. Kerr
24. Waynesboro Joseph A. Carter
25. West Staunton (Walter Hurd)
26. Winchester (Moses L. Prather)
27. Withams (Hori W. Spencer)
28. Woodstock-Strasburg (Richard W. Hall, III)
( ) Supply
SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS
Director of Wesley Foundation, A. & T. State University ... W. T. Brown
(Q. C. Trinity, C. Dist.)
Chaplain, Veteran's Hospital, Columbia, S. C Miles Murphy
(Q. C. Rhine Memorial, E. Dist.)
Chaplain, McGuire Hospital, Richmond, Va John C. Barr
(Q. C. Wesley Memorial. Va. Dist.)
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Chaplain, S. C. Dept. of Correction, Columbia, S. C. . . Charles Tyson
(Q. C. St. Luke, C. Dist.)
Director of Religious Life, Bennett College . . Peter E. A. Adoo
(Q. C. Union Memorial, C. Dist.)
Deaconess .... Mrs. Marion Wooten
(Q. C. St. Paul, C. Dist.)
Deaconess Miss Winfred Wrisley
(Q. C. Berry Temple, C. Dist.)
Deaconess Miss Ruth Walter
(Q. C. Berry Temple, C. Dist.)
Deaconess Miss Carolyn Sweers
(Q. C. Berry Temple, C. Dist.)
Appointed to attend school Charles Wendale Beane
(Q. C. Arlington, Va. Dist.)
FOURTH SESSION
SECTION NUMBER FOUR
DIRECTORY
A. ALPHABETICAL ROLL AND ADDRESSES
OF
CONFERENCE MEMBERS
On Trial and In Full Connection
(Asterisk denotes, On Trial)
Bailey, C. W Wilkesboro, N. C. 28697
Barr, John C 3215 Edgewood Ave., Richmond, Va. 23222
Bean, Charles W University of Chicago, Chicago, 111.
Bethea, Joseph B 1200 Julian St., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Black, Eugene 221 Durham St., Greensboro, N. C. 27401
Brooks, Glenn A 809 Doak St., Thomasville, N. C. 27360
Brown, William T 528 Julian St., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Post Office Box 453, Greensboro, N. C. 27402
Burley, Terry J 907 Jackson St., Lynchburg, Va. 24505
Burwick, Oscar W 105 E. Erwin St., Newton, N. C. 28658
*Carter, Joseph A 1406 N. 25th St., Richmond, Va. 23223
♦Carter, T. V. 322 Linden Ave., Oxford, N. C. 27576
Cole, Wyatt P 205 Woodling St., High Point, N. C. 27262
Crawford, William R. (Sabbatical leave)
1701 Shadymount Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C.
Curry, John W 3226 Edgewood Ave., Richmond, Va. 23222
Davis, Lenneau H 1909 Kennedy Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21218
DeBerry, David 416 W. Broad St., Meth. Bldg., Richmond, Va.
(Va. District Superintendent)
Dungee, Clyde E 2404 Bywood Rd. ? Greensboro, N. C.
Elliott, W. F P. O. Box 693, Red Springs. N. C. 28377
Ferree, James W 2021 Waters Drive, Raleigh, N. C. 27610
Frazier, Kenneth 1407 Lincoln St., Durham, N. C. 27701
Gamble, J. W General Delivery, Rowland, N. C. 28382
Gallispie, Sylvester T 1021 Oberlin Rd., Raleigh, N. C. 27605
Graham, Oscar M P. O. Box 1207, Laurinburg. N. C. 28352
Gwyn, James W 1106 Caldwell St., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Harkness, David S 505 Center Church Rd., Leaksville, N. C. 27288
Haskins, Joseph F 308 Annandale Rd., Falls Church. Va. 22042
Henton, Edward G 616 Cumberland St., Fayetteville, N. C. 28301
Jasper, Otis L 630 Webster St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20011
Jenkins, Calvin L Alabama A & M College, Normal Alabama
Jones, E. J 907 Salisbury St., Asheboro, N. C. 27203
Jones, James T 73 Taft Ave., Asheville, N. C. 28803
Jones, John W 1114 Benbow Rd., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Jowers, J. B 1805 Belcrest Dr., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Kelly, J. David Route 3, Box 256, Heathsville, Va. 22473
*Kerr, J. F. A P. O. Box 52, Wachapreague, Virginia 23480
Laughlin, Marcus S 217 Rankin St., Lenoir, N. C. 28645
Marcellus, Cecil 206 Williams St., Reidsville, N. C. 27320
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Mayfield, Le Mon 1035 25th St., N.W., Winston-Salem, N. C. 27105
McNeil, Kenneth 335 E. 4th St., Lexington, N. C. 27292
McCallum, James E 1700 W. Trade St., Charlotte, N. C. 28208
McCallum, James H 620 McAlpine Dr., Fayetteville, N. C. 28301
(Eastern District Superintendent)
McCallum, Marshall 704 Buffalo St., Shelby, N. C. 28150
*McDowell, Robert H 501 Mitchell St., Kings Mountain, N. C.
Moore, Douglas E 500 Lee Highway, Arlington, Va. 22207
Murphy, Miles Jr Chaplain, Veteran's Hospital, Columbia, S. C.
NeSmith, Samuel E , ... 500 N. Naylor St., Alexandria, Virginia
Pannell, James M 3210 Garland Ave., Richmond, Va. 23222
Patterson, John J 208 S. Center St., Hickory, N. C. 28601
Peters, J. C 609 S. Ashe St., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
(Central District Superintendent)
Porte Rawle S 10 Prospect St., Staunton, Va. 24401
Powell, Theodore A P. O. Box 1715, Shelby, N. C. 28150
Renick, Carl W I 13 Taylor St., Lexington, Va. 24450
Robinson, Avery E 2063 "K" Court, N.W., Winston-Salem, N. C. 27105
Robinson, William T 415 Ledbetter St., Spindale, North Carolina
Royster, William R P. O. Box 344, Elkin, North Carolina 28621
Sawyer,' James F P. O. Box 1030, Hamlet, North Carolina 28401
Sellers ' Liston 753 Washington Drive, High Point, N. C. 27260
Shivers, James H 811 Ann St., Wilmington, N. C.
Smith Harry A . . 2544 Kirkwood St., Winston-Salem, N. C. 27105
Strickland, C. E P. O. Box 1142, Hamlet, N. C. 28345
Stowe, Arthur W 377 Sharpe St., Mooresville, N. C. 28115
*Talley, Wilburt 7730 Fordson Rd., Alexandria, Va. 22313
Tate Godfrey L 2729 Bowdens Ferry Rd., Norfolk, Va. 23508
Thomas, Lonnie 809 Madison Ave., N. W., Roanoke, Va. 24016
Townsend, Samuel L P. O. Box 1487, Laurinburg, N. C. 28352
Tyson Charles E 4211 Grand St., Apt. C, Columbia, S. C. 29203
Williams, Thaddeus H Route 2, Box 229, Onancock, Va. 23417
B. RETIRED MEMBERS
Arter Ernest E Route 144, Cooksville, Maryland
Bynum, Charles G. . . c/o Clarence A. Bynum, 164 ^ 0S Pgt Q Street^ g R .
Caldwell, Gilbert H 710 Douglas St., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Dula j q . . P. O. Box 949, Marion, N. C. 28752
Friend,' Ira A." '.'.'... P.O. Box 1132, Oxford, N. C. 27565
Green, Herbert A^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ No ^ Wagh>> D c 20009
Holland, James H Route 1, Fort Defiance, Virginia
Jefferson, M. M 1918 Mercer Street, Roanoke, Virginia
McCallum, Felton F 517 Jamestown Rd., Greensboro, N. C.
McCallum, Robert F. . . 355 Dixie Broadway, Winston-Salem, N. C. 27107
McLeod, Edward M 608 Taft St., Laurinburg, N. C.
Patterson, George W Route 1, Mooresville, N. C. 28115
Phelps, Grandison M. Sr 537 E. Brag St., Greensboro, N. C.
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Polk, William H 17 E. Royal St., Leesburg, Virginia 22075
Sharpe, Robert C 507 Lyndhurst St., Baltimore, Maryland
C. ROLL AND ADDRESSES OF APPROVED SUPPLY
AND SUPPLY PASTORS, BY DISTRICTS
CENTRAL DISTRICT
Brown, Andrew 2130 Everitt St., Greensboro, N. C.
Boyd, Johnny G. 4024 Pump Station Rd., High Point, N. C. 27260
Carter, Paul G 714 S. Elm St., High Point, N. C. 27260
Dula, J. Bert 217 Rankin St., Lenoir, North Carolina 28645
Dunlap, David P. O. Box 252, Madison, N. C.
East, Sophia (Mrs.) Pilot Mountain, N. C. 27041
Gray, John A Route 2, Box 165, Trinity, N. C. 27370
Hall, Arthur Route 1, Box 41, Greensboro, N. C. 27402
Howell, William Gammon Theological Seminary (ITC) Atlanta, Ga.
Jessup, Belvin 167 Burns Street, Asheboro, N. C. 27203
Johnson, Walter N 1000 Julian St., Greensboro, N. C. 27406
McLean, James M Rt. 1, Box 165, Stanley, N. C. 28164
Miller, Buford P. O. Box 131, Rural Hall, N. C. 27045
Napper, Willie L Rt. 2, Box 675, Greensboro, N. C. 27405
Scott, Clifton Advance, N. C. 27006
Walton, Marion P. O. Box 44, Mooresboro, North Carolina
Withers, Otto Pine Hall, North Carolina 27042
CENTRAL DISTRICT
SUPPLY PASTORS
Froneberger, Ralph A Hood Seminary, Salisbury, N. C. 28144
Jones, Luther H 1724 Grant Ave., Winston-Salem, N. C. 27105
Rankins, W. T 3411 Jonah Terrace, Greensboro, N. C. 27406
Spinks, I. C 2111 McConnell Road, Greensboro, N. C. 27401
Warren, G. L 182 Nelson Street, Kernersville, N. C. 27284
Williams, Jacob T 150 Hill St., Lenoir. North Carolina
EASTERN DISTRICT
Brown, Med way 1814 Newark St., Fayetteville. N. C. 28301
Benton, Fred 411 Edens Ave., Lumberton, N. C. 28358
McEachin, John F Route 1, Box 47, Raeford, N. C. 28376
EASTERN DISTRICT
SUPPLY PASTORS
Hill, Benton 708% Wooster St., Wilmington, N. C.
Horsley, Leroy Route 1, Rowland, N. C.
Smith, J. 21 Marshall St., Bennettsville, S. C.
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VIRGINIA DISTRICT
Barclay, Howard Star Route, Horntown, Virginia 23395
Bell, Richard A 451 Broad St., Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801
Black, Stewart E Rt. 1, Box 190-Cradford, Virginia 24141
Fowler, George W Rt. 34, Box 206, Lynchburg, Virginia 24504
Hall, Richard W. Ill ..... 1514 "S" St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20009
Hobbs, Frederick D 482 Burbank St., S.E., Washington, D. C. 20019
Hurd, Walter Route 6, Staunton, Virginia 24401
Johnson, William I P. O. Box 75, Lynch Station, Virginia 24571
McKay, James B General Delivery, Waldorf, Maryland 20601
Prather, Moses L 308 Ky. Ave. S.E., Washington, D. C. 20003
Spencer, Hori W. Rt. 1, Box 4-C, New Church, Virginia 23415
D. LIST OF LOCAL PREACHERS
Sampson Buie
R. W. Johnson
Phillip Graham
Calvin Sharpe
James W. Scales
Edward Wiggins
(Miss) Emma R. McLean.
RETIRED SUPPLY PASTORS
Davis, Walter McCorkle, Turner D.
McCallum, Jefferson Lambert, Harvey J.
Tyes, Joseph E.
E. LAY DELEGATES REGISTERED AT THE FOURTH
AND LAST SESSION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA-
VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
CENTRAL DISTRICT
Charge
Delegate Reserve
Name and Address Name and Address
Asheboro
Miss Blanche Reid
507 Greensboro Street
Asheboro, North Carolina
Brooks Memorial
High Point
Mrs. L. B. Haizlip
212 Vail Street
High Point, N. C.
Browning Chapel
Greensboro
Mrs. Sadie Shepherd
1733 Willow Road
Greensboro, N. C.
Brown Summit
Mrs. Lena Evans
Route 1
Reidsville, N. C.
FOURTH SESSION
Char gre
Celia Phelps
Empire
Glenola-Liberty
Lraughlin and
Summerfield
Leaks ville
Lexington
Madison
Mt. Tabor
Pilot Mt.-Advance
Raleigh Cross Rd.
Ramseur
Reidsville
Rural Hall-Red
Bank
St. Andrews
Winston-Salem
Saints Home
Winston-Salem
St. James
Delegate
Name and Address
Miss A. M. Tonkins
3813 Freeman Mill Road
Greensboro, N. C.
Miss Margaret Green
Rt. 1, Box 299
Seagrove, N. C.
Mrs. Viola Belo
Rt. 3, Box 272
High Point, N. C.
Mrs. Helen Hayes
711 Dale Street
Greensboro, N. C.
Mrs. Ophelia Simpson
Rt. 1, Box 205
Eden, North Carolina
Dr. L. H. Caple
201 Smith Avenue
Lexington, N. C.
Mr. Glyde Goolsby
Pine Hall, N. C.
Reserve
Name and Address
Mrs. Zoe P. Barbee
Rt. 6, Box 527 A
Greensboro, N. C.
Miss Betsy A. Franklin
Box 172
Madison, N. C.
Mr. Arthur Crump
3217 Freeman Mill Road
Greensboro, N. C.
Mrs. Agnes Tillman
P. O. Box 387
Pilot Mtn., N. C.
Mrs. Helen M. Gilreath
2117 McConnell Road
Greensboro, N. C.
Miss Arlen Richard Cheek
Rt. 4, Box 79
Siler City, N. C.
Mrs. Shirley G. Fester
Rt. 5, Box 476
Reidsville, N. C.
Mrs. Bessie Conrad Mrs. Jettie Eller
243 Jackson St., Box 454 Rural Hall, N. C.
Rural Hall, N. C.
Mr. Amos W. Harper
2007 K Ct. Avenue
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Mrs. Sally McGee
1438 N. Cherry St.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Mrs. Nancy Cheek
1012 Ardmore Drive
Greensboro, N. C.
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Charge
St. Mark
High Point
St. Matthews
Greensboro
St. Paul's
Winston-Salem
Thomasville
Delegate
Name and Address
Miss Jacquelin Y. Eaves
1328 Cedrow Drive
High Point, N. C.
Mr. Clarence M.
Winchester
1506 Benbow Road
Greensboro, N. C.
Mr. Rochard C. Erwin
P. O. Box 2057
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Mrs. Vivian Dula
114 Church Street
Thomasville, N. C.
Reserve
Name and Address
NOTE: Catherine Perry registered at the Conference, but did not list
charge and address.
EASTERN DISTRICT LAY DELEGATES
(Registered)
Durham
Galilee
Laurinburg
John Wesley
Fayette ville
Lumberton
Maxton
Mt. Zion
St. Peters
Oxford
Ryhne Memorial
Rowland-Salem
St. John
Wilmington
Mr. Ross E. Townes
101 W. Alton St.
Durham, N. C.
Mrs. Roberta Blue
Rt. 2, Box 369
Laurinburg, N. C.
Mrs. S. W. Ashe
118 Chance Street
Fayetteville, N. C.
Mr. S. T. Brooks
P. O. Box 806
Lumberton, N. C.
Mrs. Mary G. Harden
P. O. Box 311
Maxton, N. C.
Mrs. Lena M. Brown
Route 1, Box 189
Shannon, N. C.
Mrs. G. A. Hester
Oxford, N. C.
Mrs. Trula McKeithan
P. O. Box 443
(City not given)
Mr. James Bowen
Box 43
Maxton, N. C.
Mrs. Adlena M. Hill
1016 N. 8th St.
Wilmington, N. C.
Mrs. Margaret Minor
801 Price Avenue
Durham, N. C. 27201
M
FOURTH SESSION
Charge
St. Peters
Union Parish
Wilson Temple
Name and Address
Delegate
Mrs. Frances L. Laughlin
Rt. 1, Randlemon, N. C.
Miss Marie Bethea
Rt. 1, Box 178
Matlas, N. C.
Mr. Bruce Hargrove
1115 Kitt Place
Raleigh, N. C.
Reserve
Name and Address
NOTE: Mr. E. M. McNair registered, but charge and place not given.
VIRGINIA DISTRICT LAY DELEGATES
(Registered)
Alexandria:
Roberts Memorial
Alexandria:
Woodlawn
Christianburg
Edwardsville
Falls Church
Hamilton-
Leesburg
Harrisonburg
Horntown
Leemont
Leesville
Lexinton-Beuna
Vista-Covington
Lynchburg-
Bedford
Mr. Earl N. Contee
328 N. Patrick St.
Alexandria, Va. 22314
Mrs. Naomi Holland
813 Jefferson St. N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20011
Mrs. Roberta Nowlin
P. O. Box 453
Christiansburg, Pa. 24073
Mrs. Fannie Middleton
Route 3
Heathsville, Va. 24473
Mrs. Althea Taylor
7800 Lee Highway
Falls Church, Va. 22042
Mr. Eugene Barber
113 South Street
Leesville, Va. 22075
Mr. Fred Wise
Rt. 2, Box 215
Onancock, Va 23417
Mr. Roosevelt Anthony
Rt. 2, Box 13
Leesville, Va. 24109
Mr. James H. Smith
2418 Sycamore Ave.
Beuna Vista, Va. 24416
Mrs. Rebecca Turner
518 Fillmore St.
Lynchburg, Va.
Mrs. Revirdist Jones
Rt. 1, Box 245
Heathsville, a. 22473
Mrs. Frances Brown
Rt. 1, Box 181
Weyess Cave, Va.
Mrs. Harriet Cannon
Star Route
New Church, Va. 23415
Mrs. Evelyn Dickerson
P. O. Box 659
Parksley, Va. 23421
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Charge
Middleburg
Norfolk-
Pleasant Ridge
Penhook-
Boones Mill
Purceville
Richmond-.
Asbury
Roanoke-Salem
Buchanan
Staunton-
Grottoes
Wachapreague
Waynesboro
West Staunton
Withams
Woodstock-
Strasburg
Delegate
Name and Address
Mrs. Lela Allen
Box 134
Upperville, Va.
Mr. Ezell B. Johnson, Sr.
1417 W. 38th St.
Norfolk, Va. 23508
Mrs. Zenobia Ashville
Rt. 2, Box 178
Boons Mill, Va. 24065
Mrs. Dorothy Moorehead
624 N. Alfred St.
Alexandria, Va. 22314
Mr. Charles B. Carter
3709 Meridian Ave.
Richmond, Va. 23234
Mr. Jack Miller
111 Wells Ave.
Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. Lelia J. Taylor
427 N. Market St.
Staunton, Va. 24401
Mrs. Sadie Watkins
Box 54
Melfa, Va. 23410
John B. Barts
Box 84
Stuarts Draft, Va. 24477
Mrs. Melva Smith
35 Purviance St.
Staunton, Va. 24401
Mrs. Anna M. Downing
Post Office
Jenkins Bridge, Va. 23399
Mr. Charles Nickens
143 N. Water St.
Woodstock, Va. 22664
Reserve
Name and Address
Asheville
Brooks Chapel
Gastonia
WESTERN DISTRICT LAY DELEGATES
(Registered)
Mrs. Iola P. Byers
3 Buffalo Street
Asheville, N. C. 28806
Mr. Ralph Brooks
Route 1
Eilenboro, N. C.
Mrs. Dulcina Spencer
201 W. Granite St.
Gastonia, N. C.
Mr. Isaac Simpson
720 20th St.
Gastonia. N. C.
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FOURTH SESSION
Charge
Kings Mountain
Lenoir
Lowesville
Marion
Mt. Holly
Mooresville
Newton Circuit
Philadelphia
Lawndale
Scotts Chapel
Statesville
Shelby-Bessemer
Stanley-Hunters
Wilkesboro
Delegate
Name and Address
Mr. Taft Clark
Kings Mtn., N. C.
Mr. Verdell Michaux
116 Arlington Cr.
Lenoir, N. C.
Mr. James Burton
Denver, N. C.
Mrs. Vivian Swepson
Marion, N. C.
Mrs. Bleaker McCorkle
112 Nims Avenue
Mt. Holly, N. C.
719 W. Bank Street
Mooresville, N. C.
Miss Johnsie McCorkle
327 Ervin Street
Newton, N. C.
Mrs. Madilla Carson
P. O. Box 362
Lawndale, N. C. 28090
Mr. Alvin Morrison
Rt. 4, Box 129
Statesville, N. C.
Mrs. Pauline Clark
704 Earl Road
Shelby, N. C.
Mrs. Mattie R. Pry or
Rt. 1, Box 496
Davidson, N. C.
Mrs. Evalee C. Cula
P. O. Box 733
Lenoir, N. C.
Reserve
Name and Address
Mr. Terry Boyce
803 Floyd St.
Kings Mtn., N. C.
NOTE: The Below named persons registered with the Conference, but
did not list the CHARGE they represented.
Mrs. Roy Brown (Lula)
2105 St. Mark Street
(City not Given)
Mrs. Elease Miles
605 Ashburn Street
High Point, N. C.
Mrs. Psalm W. Mitchell
Box 511, Walkertown, N. C.
Mrs. Marie Scales
Route 1, Box 420
(City not Given)
Mr. Herbert Lee Phipps
1034 West McCollough St.
Greensboro, N. C.
Mr. John W. Sapp
1509 S. Benbow Road
Greensboro, N. C.
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F. DELEGATES TO THE SOUTHEASTERN
JURISDICTIONAL CONFERENCE
Ministerial:
Rev. Joseph B. Bethea (Gen. Conf. Delegate)
Rev. James W. Ferree
Rev. William T. Brown
RESERVES
Rev. J. David Kelly
Rev. James H. McCallum
Lay Delegates:
Mr. Clarence M. Winchester (Gen. Conf. Delegate)
Mr. Richard C. Ervin
Mr. Earl N. Contee
RESERVES
Mr. Alvin L. Morrison
Mr. S. T. Brooks
FOURTH SESSION
SECTION NUMBER FIVE
NECROLOGY
A. ROLL OF DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE
CONFERENCE
OUR PROMOTED FELLOW WORKERS
"These all died in the work and hope of Christ, receiving the end of
faith — the salvation of their souls."
Name
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When and Where Departed
1891
1886
1820
1904
1928
1886
1877
1903
1910
1900
1900
1901
1888
1901
William E. Hairston
James J. Baker
Judge Whitted
Daniel H. McLean
Alexander Anderson
Arthur M. Erwin
Walter T. Lomax
Robert B. McRae
H. William Phillips
T. C. Tarpley
Ralph D. Sharpe
George E. Hogue
Benjamin L. Burge
Leander A. Brown
1917
36
1952
12
1963
2
1942
25
1954
11
1918
38
1905
44
1924
42
1948
18
1943
13
1943
13
1930
36
1914
43
1931
37
Aug. 17, 1964 Reidsville, N. C.
Nov. 28, 1964 Bedford, Va.
Dec. 25, 1964 Greensboro, N. C.
May 19, 1965 Lexington, N. C.
Sept. 24, 1965 Greensboro, N. C.
Sept. 29, 1965 Greensboro, N. C.
Nov. 12, 1965 Reidsville, N. C.
Mar. 21, 1966 Fayetteville, N. C.
April 19, 1966 Winston-Salem, N. C.
July 3, 1966 Greensboro, N. C.
Aug. 2, 1966. . . Winston-Salem, N. C.
Dec. 8, 1966 Richmond County, N. C.
Jan. 7, 1968 Newton, N. C.
Jan. 16, 1968 Greensboro, N. C.
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL, CONFERENCE 39
B. MEMORIAL SERVICE
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
MARCH 27, 1968 — 2:00 P. M.
Eugene Black, Presiding
THE ORDER OF WORSHIP
THE ORGAN PRELUDE
THE CALL TO WORSHIP
HYMN— "O God, Our Help In Ages Past" No. 28
THE RESPONSIVE READING— "The Lord Is My Light" No. 563
The Reverend Eugene Black
THE GLORIA PATRI— "Glory Be To The Father" No. 792
THE AFFIRMATION OF FAITH— "The Apostles' Creed" No. 738
THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE— Revelation 2: 1-10 . . .
The Reverend Cecil Marcellus
PRAYER
HYMN— "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" No. 261
THE SERMON The Reverend James E. McCallum
Charlotte, North Carolina
HYMN— "Servant Of God, Well Done" No. 288
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
t
OUR BELOVED DEPARTED
ACTIVE RETIRED
LEANDER A. BROWN BENJAMIN L. BURGE
1929 - 1968 1912 - 1968
APPROVED SUPPLY
OSCAR DAVENPORT
40 FOURTH SESSION
C. MEMOIRS
LEANDER ANTHONY BROWN
November 5, 1902 - January 16, 1968
On January 16, 1968, Leander Anthony Brown went to join that great
cloud of witnesses in the church invisible — the church triumphant.
He was born in Robeson County, near Maxton, North Carolina, on
November 5, 1902. He was the son of William Joseph and Melinda Brown.
He attended Bennett College and received the Bachelor of Arts from
Morgan College, Baltimore, Maryland and the Bachelor of Divinity from
Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia.
On May 25, 1929, he was married to George Wesye Taylor. To this
union were born the following children: Leander Anthony, Jr., Bertha
Olivia, William Albert, Oshie Mary, Helen Wesye, Jean Taylor and Brenda
Carole.
Brother Brown held pastorates at Pen Hook, Virginia, 1931; Brooks
Memorial, High Point, 1932; Lexington, 1934; Lenoir, 1938; Asheville,
1940. From 1957 until 1960, he served as District Superintendent of the
Winston District and from 1960 until 1963, he was District Superintendent
of the Greensboro District.
For several years he served as Chairman of the Commission on World
Service and Finance. He served a term as Conference Treasurer before
becoming a District Superintendent. After leaving the District, he was
again elected Conference Treasurer, a position he held until his death.
For twelve years, Brother Brown taught undergraduate pastors in the
Baltimore Area School of Ministerial Training.
He built the beautiful new Gothic Church, Berry Temple, Asheville,
North Carolina. For years to come, this church will stand as a living
monument to his memory.
Because of their affection for and their confidence in Brother Brown,
the members of the Conference elected him to the 1960 and the 1964
Sessions to the General and Jurisdictional Conferences and to the 1966
Special Session of the General Conference.
It was my great privilege to serve for three years in the Bishops
Cabinet with Brother Brown. He was District Superintendent of the
Winston District and I was District Superintendent of the Greensboro
District. There were times when difficulties arose in adjusting the appoint-
ments. In the midst of these difficulties, he always exemplified a deep
spirit of Christian love in helping to make the appointments.
After serving three years, I left the Greensboro District and he
succeeded me and was my District Superintendent for three years. As
my District Superintendent, I always found him a great brother beloved.
I shall forever cherish his memory.
I believe that Brother Brown has simply moved into a higher realm
of service. I believe that in spirit he is still with us. I believe with the
Rev. William H. Anderson, who said in the memorial address at New York
East Conference in 1952, "... I believe with all my heart that they come
back, or never leave us. We cannot see them, or hear them, or clasp their
hands. Who would expect that? . . .
"The strength which comes in time of temptation, the comfort which
comes in the hour of sorrow and loss, the encouragement which lifts and
sends one back to the hard task — whence come these things? The members
of this unbroken fellowship are with us still and any effectiveness our
ministry has, is due in part to the help from the unseen spirit world. We
are encompassed about by a great cloud of witnesses and they still share
in our toil . . ."
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFEREN CE 41
May I close this memorial with these words from our Holy Communion
Ritual :
"We remember with thanksgiving those who have loved and served
thee in thy Church on earth, who now rest from their labors (especially
those most dear to us, whom we name in our hearts before thee). Keep
us in fellowship with all thy saints, and bring us at length to the joy
of thy heavenly kingdom.
Grant this, O Father, for the sake of Jesus Christ our only mediator
and advocate. Amen."
— William Thomas Brown
BENJAMIN LADDIE BURGE
Reverend Benjamin L. Burge was born in Rutherford County on
July 3, 1888 and passed away to life eternal on January 7, 1968. His
death came as he was preparing to leave home in destination to his
pastoral charge in Mt. Holly, N. C. After being received into full con-
nection in the Central Jurisdictional North Carolina Annual Conference in
1914, he pastored for over 53 years. All of these years of service were
performed on the Western District of the Conference. He retired in 1957,
but continued to pastor and built a new church in Mt. Holly, N. C. He
also built a new church in Newton, N. C. during his effective years.
Brother Burge was married to Ella Darcus on November 8, 1908. In
the year of 1958, Benjamin and Ella celebrated their 50th wedding ann-
versary at which time they were remarried, taking the same vows they
took fifty years ago.
The below statement from a news paper clipping sums up the church
and civic interests held by this fine Christian gentleman.
"It's rare for a community to have a man of such wide civic and church
interests as the Rev. B. L. Burge of Newton. The 79-year-old minister died
last week after a long and fruitful life of service."
"Mr. Burge was one of those individuals you could count on to head a
civic drive or to assist in building a new church or serving on a committee
aimed at bettering the relations of his community."
"Born in Rutherford County, Mr. Burge entered the ministry in 1912 and
was ordained in 1918. He came to Newton in 1943, serving actively in the
ministry until his retirement in 1957."
"After 45 years he again took up an active life the same year as his
retirement, directing the effort to build a new Methodist Church in Mt.
Holly."
"Such dedicated leadership is not easily replaced."
From Newton Newspaper
By Avery E. Robinson
42 FOURTH SESSION
SECTION NUMBER SIX
REPORTS
A. THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S OFFICIAL
HISTORIC REPORT
(This report contains the adoption of the History of the N. C.-Va. Conf.
written by W. T. Brown, with the closing chapter of the history written by
J. David Kelly)
By
William Thomas Brown
SECTION I
INTRODUCTION
For me this is a histric moment. For this kind of honor only comes
every two hundred years. Long before we celebrate the quadricentennial,
the four hundredth anniversary of American Methodism, if there be any
Methodist Church at that itme, all of us who are living today will have long
since gone to our great reward.
In all probability, two hundred years from now, there will be no
Methodist Church. For by that time Methodism will have lost its identity
in some form of Regional or World Church. I shall say more about that at
the end of this paper.
SECTION II
THE NEGRO IN GENERAL METHODIST HISTORY
Before dealing specifically with the history of the North Carolina-
Virginia Conference, I shall say something about the role of the Negro in
general Methodist history. I shall also point out the part played by a
Negro, Henry Evans, in the early history of Methodism in North Carolina.
For, as I see it, we need this knowledge to give us a better perspective
of the history of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference.
For information on the role of the Negro in American Methodism,
I am indebted to Bishop Willis J. King, retired of the Methodist Church.
Writing in Volume II of The History of American Methodism, Bishop
King says:
One of the regional groups which was set up in the unification of
the three American Methodist Churches was the Central Jurisdiction.
This Jurisdiction was unique in that it was organized on a racial
rather than a geographical basis, in contrast to the other five Juris-
dictions of the united church. It was composed of the 'Negro Annual
Conferences, the Negro Mission Conferences and Missions in the
United States of America.'
The Central Jurisdiction is a symbol of the past and present
history of the Negro in Methodism during the nearly two centuries
of its existence in America, but more, it is a practical demonstration
of the efforts a great ecclesiastical organization, under most diffi-
cult social and political conditions, to include in its membership the
most diverse racial groups. That the technique followed and the re-
sults achieved have not always been ideal: and further that the C
Jurisdiction itself, as measured against the ideal of genuine Christian
brotherhood, leaves much to be desired, are good examples of John
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Wesley's idea of the need of going on to perfection.
To appraise properly the Central Jurisdiction, therefore, one
cannot begin with the setting up of that structural arrangement in
the reorganized church in 1939, but must start at the very beginning
of the Methodist movement in America and trace the Negro's connection
with it to the present time. Such a study is intriguing and proves con-
clusively that whatever the institutional relationship may have been—
or may happen to be at the particular moment — in the hostory of both
the Methodist movement and the Negro, the two belong together.
The Methodists, because of their own relatively low social status,
could not draw the same type of caste or class distinctions as did the
order and more exclusive churches of New England and the Middle
Atlantic Coast. Nevertheless, they begin to make distinctions where
Negroes, whether slave or free, were concerned. Three months after
Joseph Pilmoor arrived in America, he wrote, 'After preaching, I met
the Negroes apart and found them very happy/ This tendency is also
in evidence early in Asbury's experience in America. In his Journal,
December 8, 1772, Asbury writes, 'In the evening the Negroes were
collected, and I spoke to them in exhortation.' 1
While the membership of John Street Methodist Church was inter-
racial from the first, in the lists of membership published in 1787
whites and Negroes were listed separately. These lists give the names
of 228 whites and 36 Negroes. St. George's Church in Philadelphia
had also begun to list the two racial groups separately. In 1788 there
were 270 white and 17 Negro members.
In addition to the separate seating arrangements provided for the
Negro members of the congrgation, discrimination was shown in other
ways. Pilmoor's Journal entry for August 9, 1772, tells of a service
where the church was not large enough to accommodate all who desired
to attend: 'As the ground was wet, they persauded me to try to preach
within and appointed me to stand at the door to keep all the Negroes
out till the white persons were got in, but the house would not near
hold them.' 2
In the light of these conditions it is not surprising that there
should have developed a feeling of unrest, especially among free
Negroes in the Northern section of the country, and a desire to have
more freedom of expression. This was primarily responsible for the
rise of independent Negro Methodist denominations. 3
In 1844 southern members of the Methodist Episcopal Church pulled
out and formed the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The split was over
the issue of Negro slavery.
When the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and the Methodist Protestant Church agreed to unite in 1939, the
big issue was still the Negro.
At this point, I am happy to state that the late Dr. David D. Jones
was a member of the delegation of the North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church to the 1936 session of the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Speaking before this session of the
General Conference, Dr. Jones said of the Plan of Union: "Everyone knows
1 Here we see that even the great Asbury was guilty of making racial
distinctions.
2 So you see that this matter of discrimination against Negroes in
the Methodist Church did not begin with the Central Jurisdiction. It has
been with us for a long time. How much longer, O Lord? How much longer,
O Lord?
3 Bishop Willis J. King, The History of American Methodism, Volume
III, Abingdon Press, 1964, pp. 485-486.
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that the Plan is segration, and segration in the ugliest way, because it is
couched in such pious terms." 4
Again, I am proud to state that Negroes in the Methodist Episcopal
Church have to their everlasting credit that the majority of the members
of the Negro Annual Conference voted against the Plan to establish the
Central Jurisdiction. For in so voting, they voted against an ecclesiastical
arrangement that refused to accept the Church as the Body of Christ.
For in the Body of Christ there can be no discrimination based on race,
color or class. All Christians are one in Christ Jesus.
SECTION III
THE NEGRO IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA
AND VIRGINIA METHODIST
One of the most remarkable leaders in early North Carolina and
Virginia Methodism was Henry Evans, a Negro.
In 1859, Dr. William M. Wightman, President of Wofford College, wrote
a book entitled, Life of William Capers, DD., One of the Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In this book, Dr. Wightman gives the
following quotation from Bishop Capers:
But the most remarkable man in Fayetteville when I went there, and
who died during my stay, was a negro, by the name of Henry Evans. I
say most remarkable in view of his class; and call him Negro with un-
feigned respect. He was a Negro: that is, he was of that race, without
any admixture of another. The name simply designates the race, and
it is vulgar to regard it with opprobrium. I have known and loved and
honored not a few Negroes in my life, who were probably as pure of
heart as Evans, or anybody else. Such were my old friends, Castile
Selby and John Boquet of Charleston. Will Campbell and Harry
Myrick, of Wilmington, York Cohen of Savannah, and others I might
name. These I might call remarkable for their goodness. But I use the
word in a broader sense for Henry Evans, who was confessedly the
father of Methodism, white and black, in Fayetteville, and the best
preacher of his time in that quarter; and who was so remarkable, as
to have become the greatest curiosity of the town; insomuch that
distinguished visitors harly felt that they might pass a Sunday in
Fayetteville without hearing him preach. Evans was from Virginia; a
shoemaker by trade, and, I think, was born free. He became a
Christian and a Methodist quite young, and was licensed to preach in
Virginia. While yet a young man, he determined to remove to
Charleston, S. C, thinking he might succeed best there at his
trade. But having reached Fayetteville on his way to Charleston, and
something detaining him for a few days, his spirit was stirred at
perceiving that the people of his race in that town were wholly given
to profanity and lewdness, never hearing preaching of any denomi-
nation, and living emphatically without hope and without God in
the world. This determined him to stop in Fayetteville; and he began
to preach to the negroes, with great effort. The town council inter-
fered, and noting in his power could prevail with them to permit
him to preach. He then withdrew to the sand-hills, out of town, and
held meetings in the woods, changing his appointments from place
to place. No law was violated, while the council was effectually eluded;
and so the opposition passed into the hands of the mob. These he
worried out by changing his appointments, so that when they went to
work their will upon him, he was preaching somewhere lese. Mean-
while, whatever the most honest purpose of a simple heart could do to
4 Dr. David D. Jones, The Daily Christian Advocate, the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1936, p. 87.
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reconcile his enemies, was employed by him for that end. He eluded
no one in private, but sought opportunities to explain himself; avowed
the purity of his intentions; and even begged to be subjected to the
scrutiny of any surveillance that might be though proper to prove his
inoffensiveness; any thing, so that he might but be allowed to preach.
Happily for him and for the cause of religion, his honest countenance
and earnest pleadings were soon powerfully seconded by the fruits of
his labors. One after another began to suspect their servants of attend-
ing his preaching, not because they were made worse, but wonderfully
better. The effect on the public morals of the negroes, too, began to
be seen, particularly as regarded their habits on Sunday, and drunken-
ness. And it no long before the mob was called off by a change in
the current opinion ; and Evans was allowed to preach in town. At that
time there was not a single church edifice in town, and but one congre-
gation, (Presbyterian), who worshipped in what was called the State-
house, under which was the market; and it plainly Evans or no-
body to preach to the negroes. Now, too, of the mistresses there were
not a few and some masters, who were brought to think that the preach-
ing which had proved so beneficial to their servants might be good for
them also; and the famous Negro preacher had some whites as well
as blacks to hear him. Seats distinctly separated, were at first ap-
propriated to the whites, near the pulpit. But Evans had already be-
come famous, and these seats were insufficient. Indeed, the Negroes
seemed likely to lose their preacher, negro though he was, while the
whites, crowded out their appropriated seats, took possession of those
in the rear. Meanwhile Evans had represented to the preacher of the
Bladen Circuit how things were going, and induced him to take his
meeting-house into the circuit, and constitute a church there. And
now, there was no longer room for the negroes in the house when
Evans preached; and for the accommodation of both classes, the
weatherboards were knocked off and sheds were added to the house
on either side; the whites occupying the whole of the original building,
and the Negroes those sheds as a part of the same house. . . I have
known not many preachers who appeared more conversant with
Scripture than Evans, or whose conversation was more instructive as
to the things of God.
... It was my practice to hold a meeting with the blacks in the
church directly after the morning preaching every Sunday. And on
the Sunday before his death, during this meeting, the little door be-
tween his humble shed and the chancel where I stood was opened,
and the dying man entered for a last farewell to his people. He was
almost too feeble to stand at all, but supporting himself by the railing
of the chancel, he said: 'I have come to say my last word to you. It is
this: None but Christ. Three times I have had my life in jeopardy
for preaching the gospel to you. Three times I have broken the ice
on the edge of the water and swum across the Cape Fear to preach the
gospel to you. And now, if in my last hour I could trust to that, or
anything else but Christ crucified, for my salvation, all should be
lost, and my soul perish forever.' A noble testimony! Worthy, not of
Evans only, but St. Paul. His funeral at the church was attended by
a greater concourse of persons than had been seen on any funeral
occasion before. The whole community appeared to mourn his death,
and the universal feeling seemed to be that in honoring the memory
of Henry Evans we were paying a tribute to virtue and religion. He
was buried under the chancel of the church of which he had been in
so remarkable a manner the founder. 5
In 1934, Miss Elizabeth Lamb wrote a booklet entitled, Historical
Sketch of Hay Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South Fayetteville, North
5 William Wightman, Life of William Capers, pp. 124-129.
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Carolina. In this booklet she throws some more light on Evan's place of
burial. She says, "Henry Evans died in 1810, and is buried under the church
that today stands on the site the First Methodist Church built in Fayette-
Ville." 6
On May 16, 1966, I went to Fayetteville, North Carolina and had an
interview with an elderly woman member of Hay Street Methodist Church.
She appeared to be well versed in the history of this church and informed
me that the First Methodist Church to which Miss Lamb referred is now
Evans Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. She further
informed me that the present Hay Street Methodist Church, white, grew
out of the "First Methodist," now Evans Metropolitan African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church.
Thus, we see that Henry Evans, a Negro, played an outstanding role
in the early history of Methodism in North Carolina.
SECTION IV
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE DELAWARE, EAST TENNESSEE, NORTH
CAROLINA AND NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA CONFERENCES
This brings us to a consideration of the organization of the former
Delaware, East Tennessee, North Carolina, and Washington Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church. I am con-
sidering the organization of all of these conferences because the former
North Carolina Conference and parts of the Delaware, East Tennessee, and
Washington Conferences now constitute the North Carolina-Virginia Con-
ference.
The Delaware Conference was organized on July 20, 1864. The first
session was held that year at John Wesley Methodist Church in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania. Bishop Edmund S. Janes was President and W. S. Elzey was
Secretary.
The East Tennessee Conference was organized in 1880 and held its
first session in the Greensville Methodist Episcopal Church, Greensville,
Tennessee. The date of the first session was October 15, 1880. Bishop E. O.
Haven was President and B. H. Johnson was Secretary.
The North Carolina Conference was organized in 1836. According to
the Conference Journals "its first session opened as a part of the Virginia
Conference. But when it adjourned there were two Conferences."
Apparently, the combined session of the North Carolina Conference
and the Virginia Conference met in Petersburg, Virginia on February 8,
1837. (The name of the Presiding Bishop is not recorded. The Secretary
was G. H. Leigh). This would mean that the first independent session of
the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held
on January 31. 1838, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bishop Morris was
President and G. H. Leigh was Secretary.
For many years, the Journals of the North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the North Carolina Conference of the
Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church have carried the following
other pertinent history:
At the Conference of December 4, 1844, there were 10.495 white
members and 3,100 colored. Without consulting the wisdom of the
latter, nearly the whole membership became a part of a new church,
organized in May 1845, and called the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South. Some of the colored members entered the A.M.E. Church, some
the Colored M. E. Church of America, but thousands turned gladly to
the bosom of the Methodist Episcopal as it returned to the State after
the Civil War.
d Elizabeth Lamb, Historical Sketches of Hay St. Methodist Cuhrch, P. 7
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 47
Between the years 1844, when the Church was separated over the
slave question, and in 1865, when at the close of the War, the M. E.
Church returned to shepherd its scattering flock in North Carolina,
there was no session of the North Carolina Conference.
The Washington Conference
The Washington Conference was organized in the Sharp Street Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland at 3:30 p.m., Thursday,
October 27, 1864. Bishop Levi Scott was President and Benjamin Brown was
Secretary.
The North Carolina-Virginia Conference
On August 11-12, 1964, at Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina,
a special session was called for the purpose of organizing the North Caro-
lina-Virginia Conference of the Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist
Church. Bishop Charles F. Golden was President and John G. Corry was
Secretary.
The first regular session of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference
was held at Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina, on June 3-6,
1965. Bishop Charles F. Golden was President and Avery E. Robinson was
Secretary.
SECTION V
BENNETT COLLEGE
In her brief history of Bennett College, Miss Virginia Simmons says,
In 1873, a parochial school for Negroes was started in the basement
of Saint Matthews Methodist Episcopal Church, Greensboro by the
Freedman's Aid and Southern Education Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church with Mr. W. J. Parker as the first principal. During
the first four years of its existence this school was patronized only
by local students. In 1877, however, relying upon an increasing interest
in their venture throughout North Carolina and the rest of the South,
the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church de-
cided to purchase a site for a building large enough for the school
and a dormitory.
In the fall of 1878 the school was named Bennett Seminary.
Its second principal was Dr. Edward O. Thayer. In 1881, the Reverend
Wilber F. Steele became the third principal of Bennett Seminary. Under
his administration, the Seminary was charted by the State of North Carolina
as Bennett College. In 1889, Dr. Charles N. Grandison became head of the
College. He was its first Negro head.
Miss Virginia Simmons in her history of Bennett College also says,
"'Among the administrators for the fifty succeeding years were Presidents
Jordan D. Chavis, 1892-1905, Silas A. Peeler, 1905-1913, James E. Wallace,
1913-1915, Frank Trigg, 1915-1925."
In 1926, Bennett College became a school devoted exclusively to the
education of young women. In that year Dr. David D. Jones was elected
to the presidency. He served in this position until his death in 1955. Under
Dr. Jones' leadership Bennett became one of the most outstanding colleges
in America. Dr. Jones emphasized beauty of surroundings and attention
to the individual student.
Dr. Willa B. Player served as president from 1955 until 1966. Dr.
Player continued the emphasis of Dr. Jones.
In the spring of 1966, Dr. Isaac H. Miller, associate professor of
biochemistry at Meharry Medical College, was elected to the presidency to
succeed Dr. Willa B. Player.
Throughout the years Bennett received moral and financial support
from the North Carolina Conference. The North Carolina-Virginia Con-
ference is continuing this support.
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SECTION VI
ALLEN HOME
Allen Home, an outstanding high school for girls, was organized in
1887 by the Woman's Home Missionary Society — now the Woman's Society
of Christian Service. Through the years the North Carolina Conference
gave moral and financial support to Allen Home. The North Carolina-
Virginia Conference is continuing this support.
SECTION VII
MINISTERS ELECTED TO THE EPISCOPACY
The Reverend Noah W. Moore, Jr., a member of the Delaware Con-
ference, was elected to the Episcopacy in 1960.
The Reverend Matthew W. Clair, Sr., a member of the Washington
Conference was elected to the Episcopacy in 1920. The Reverend William A.
C. Hughes, a member of the Washington Conference, was elected to the
Bishopric in 1940. The Reverend Edgar A. Love, a member of the Wash-
ington Conference, was elected to the Bishopric in 1952.
The Reverend Robert E. Jones, a member of the North Carolina Con-
ference, was elected to the Episcopacy in 1920. The Reverend Robert N.
Brooks, a member of the North Carolina Conference, was elected to the
Episcopacy in 1944. The Reverend Prince A. Taylor, a member of the North
Conference was elected to the Bishopric in 1956.
SECTION VIII
OUTSTANDING CHURCHMEN OF THE FORMER NORTH CAROLINA
CONFERENCE AND THE PRESENT NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA
CONFERENCE
Outstanding deceased churchmen among the ministers are: T. M.
Joiner, William H. Coler, E. M. Collett, C. W. Blaylock, S. M. Hanes, D.
Connell, R. C. Campbell, E. N. Grandison, Robert Smith, L. B. Gibson,
Daniel Brooks, W. W. Morgan, Wilber Steele, John M. Champlain, Milton
M. Jones, James A. Laughlin, Samuel F. B. Peace, M. J. Bullock, Elisha
Howard, R. T. Weatherby, H. L. Ashe, R. W. Winchester, William S.
McLeod, John E. Brower, and Walter T. Lomax.
Prominent deceased churchmen among the laymen are: Alsie B. Dole,
W. B. Windsor, J. A. McRae, Isabelle R. Jones, David D. Jones, and C. A.
Barrett.
Prominent living churchmen among the ministers are: G. M. Phelps,
L. A. Brown, Richard L. Clifford, and J. David Kelly.
Outstanding living churchmen among the laymen are: Clarence M.
Winchester, A. L. Morrison, Susie Jones, Richard C. Ervin, and Alice P.
McLeod.
SECTION IX
HISTORICAL CHURCHES
Mount Zion Methodist Church, Leesburg, Virginia, has been cited
as being the oldest continuing congregation. Their history is rooted in
old Leesburg which was organized in 1789. However, it was organized as
Mount Zion in 1865.
The Board of Publications has given a plaque to Mount Zion citing
them as the oldest continuing congregation.
Roberts Memorial Methodist Church, Alexandria, Virginia, is the
oldest organized congregation. It was organized as Roberts Memorial in
1830.
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Saint Matthews Methodist Church, Greensboro, North Carolina, was
organized in 1866. In 1871, the church moved to its present location. Dr.
Silas A. Peeler built the present structure in 1903. Saint Matthews Metho-
dist Church is the oldest Negro church in Greensboro.
Saint Paul Methodist, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was organized
in 1871. Under the leadership of the Reverend G. W. Morehead and the
Reverend N. D. Shamburger it was rebuilt in 1903. After moving to a new
location, the present structure was built in 1961 under the leadership of
the present pastor, the Reverend Le Mon Mayfield.
Saint Mark Methodist, High Point, North Carolina, was organized in
1871 under the leadership of the Reverend Lewis Gibson. It was rebuilt in
1928 under the leadership of the Reverend H. L. Ashe.
SECTION X
OUTSTANDING BUILDERS OF CHURCHES
I have already referred to Dr. Silas A. Peeler and the Reverend
H. L. Ashe as prominent church builders. Let me now mention six other
leading church builders. The Reverend William E. Hairston, deceased, built
the Union Memorial Methodist Church, Greensboro, North Carolina, in
1952. He also built a beautiful modern brick structure at Wesley Chapel
Methodist Church near Reidsville, North Cai-olina, during his pastorate
there from 1955 until 1959.
William E. Hairston was not only a great church builder, he was a
man of unusual mental ability. He was a great scholar and a prophet of
social righteousness.
The Reverend Robert B. McRae, deceased, was probably the greatest
church builder in the history of the Conference. He built a church and
remodeled the parsonage in Hamlet. He built parsonage in Ramseur,
Reidsville and Forest City. He built the beautiful modern John Wesley
Methodist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, during the conference
year 1958-1959. This Church stands as a living monument to the name of
Robert Belton McRae.
Saint Paul Methodist Church in Reidsville, North Carolina, was burned
and was rebuilt in 1921 under the pastorate of the Reverend Grandison M.
Phelps.
Under unusually difficult circumstances, the Reverend George E. Hogue
moved the Galilee Methodist Church in Laurinburg, North Carolina, to
its present location and rebuilt it during the Conference year 1958-1959.
This Church stands as a living memorial to the wonderful work of George
E. Hogue.
The Reverend Leander A. Brown built the beautiful Gothic Berry
Temple Methodist Church in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1953. He will be
remembered as a great builder as well as a churchman.
Another prominent builder of churches is the Reverend LeMon Mayfield.
He built the present modern Brooks Memorial Methodist Church in High
Point, North Carolina in 1950. Under his administration, Saint Paul Metho-
dist Church, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was moved it its present
location and a magnificient church structure was built in 1961. The Confer-
ence will forever be in debt to this noble servant for his great contribution
as a builder of churches.
SECTION XI
EDUCATORS
I have already dealt with Dr. Silas A. Peeler, Dr. David D. Jones,
and Dr. Willa B. Player as educators. Let me now briefly mention three
other educators produced by the Conference. The Reverend John P. Morris,
deceased, served as vice president of Bennett College.
Dr. Gilbert H. Caldwell was instructor at Bennett College in 1919.
50 FOURTH SESSION
He was dean of Bennett College in 1920-1922. He served as dean and pro-
fessor at Samuel Houston College, Austin, Texas, from 1923 until 1926. He
was director of religious activities and professor of religion at Samuel
Huston College in 1952-1953. He served as director of religious activities
and professor of religion at Claflin College, Orangeburg, South Carolina,
1953-1954.
Another educator of the Conference is the Reverend Marshall McCallum.
He was head of the department of religious education at Claflin College,
Orangeburg, South Carolina, in 1930. He was associate professor of religion
and ethics at Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina, in 1938-1944.
SECTION XII
OUTSTANDING PREACHERS
Prominent preachers produced by the Conference are: the Reverend
William M. Wells, deceased, the Reverend Marshall McCallum, and the
Reverend Richard L. Clifford. William M. Wells was a prince of the
pulpit. Marshall McCallum is a scholar-preacher. Richard L. Clifford
preaches with a deep understanding of the Christian faith.
SECTION XIII
WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
What of the future as Methodism faces the problem of segregation?
The church is the body of Christ. And there can be no segregation in the
body of Christ. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things
are passed away; behold all things are become new." The true church is
a body of people who have become new creatures in Christ Jesus. There
can be no segregation among those whose lives have been made new by the
transforming power of the Holy Spirit. So, as Methodism faces the future,
she is challenged to be the body of Christ.
What of the future as Methodism faces the move toward an ecumenical
church. Whether we like it or not, ecumenicity is the wave of the future.
In all probability before another Conference year rolls around the dele-
gates to the next November Special Session of the General Conference will
have voted for the merger of Methodists and the Evangelical United
Brethren. This means they will have voted for the establishment of a new
church — The United Methodist Church. Ecumenicity is the wave of the
future.
The Consultation on Church Union (COCU) met in Dallas, Texas on
May 2-5, 1966. Official delegates from eight major Protestant denominations
agreed on a set of basic principles for their merger into a twenty-four
million member denomination. The next step will be the drafting of a
detailed plan of union and its ratification by the participating denomina-
tions.
The members of the Consultation on Church Union are: the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, the Evangelical United Brethren, the Disciples
of Christ, the Methodist Church, the Presbvterian Church in the United
States, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, and
the United Presbyterian Church.
The fact that the Methodist Church is ecumenically minded was shown
at the recent Methodist Bicentennial Celebration in Baltimore, Marvland.
The night of April 23, 1966, was known as Ecumenical Night. Addresses
were given by Lawrence Cardinal Shehan. Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Baltimore and Dr. Charles C. Parlin, outstanding Methodist layman
and one of the presidents of the WorJd Council of Churches. Both Cardinal
Shehan and Dr. Parlin expressed their hopes for the day to come when
even Roman Catholicism and Protestantism would be one church.
Finally, what of the future as we move into an age where man is ventur-
ing into outer space? In the light of the vast universe which modern science
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUM, CONFERENCE 51
has revealed to us, it is reasonable to assume that there are great peoples
and great civilizations in outer space. It may well be that long before the
year 2166 we will have come into contact with these great peoples and
civilizations. It may well be that some of them will reach us first.
I believe with Dr. Robert J. McCracken, pastor of famous Riverside
Church in New York City, when in his book, Putting Faith to Work, he
says, "We who live on this planet still tend to think of ourselves as the
center and crown of creation and the principal concern of Providence. We
must become accustomed to the fact that we are peripheral, not central;
that we are neither alone in the universe nor unque. If the scientific
theorists are right, there are millions upon millions of other beings, not
unlike ourselves, perhaps further advanced than ourselves. How does
this affect the Christian doctrine of man — his origin, his nature, his
final destiny? It is inconceivable that the truth about God, embodied
and incarnate for us in Jesus Christ, is our sole possession to the excusion
of other possible beings elsewhere. If other planets are inhabited, and by
members of civilizations similar to ours, we who believe in the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ cannot but hold that He has revealed the
same love and truth that we find in Christ to all, anywhere, who are able to
receive them."
Let me close with the words of our Bicentennial hymn:
God of the generations, we offer Thee our song
Of praise and adoration, for through the centuries long
Thy grace has led our people on life's ascending ways;
And now, God of the ages, we lift our hymn of praise.
We thank Thee for the high road our faithful fathers trod,
For witness of the Spirit that they were born of God,
For circuit riders called by Thee, who traveled far and wide
To tell the matchless story of Jesus crucified.
Man now seeks other planets; he walks in stellar space;
He plumbs the ocean's darkness, all knowledges to embrace;
But yet he yearns to find Thee, to hear Thy voice so still.
How shall Thy church make answer, her mission to fulfill?
Where greed and envy flourish, where hate holds evil asway,
Where poverty and sorrow delay God's holy day,
There let Thy Church speak boldly, reach out her loving
hand,
And lead men of all nations to find the Promised Land.
THE CLOSING CHAPTER OF THE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S REPORT
We write the final chapter of the short-lived, but glorious history of
the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference. This conference will
probablv be recorded as the swiftest moving conference of the age its
orgin, just three and a half years ago, was rooted in the shallow soil of
transition. Two years after its organization, June 1966 by a count of 117 for
and 11 against, it voted its transfer from the Central Jurisdiction and
merger with the three overlaping conferences of the Southeastern Juris-
diction, the North Carolina, the Western North Carolina, and the Vrrgin a
Annual Conferences. It reaffirmed that vote in its 1967 session by a vote
of 140 for and 20 against. ,
In December 1967 it was transferred from the Central Jurisdiction
into the Southeastern Jurisdiction and placed under the supervision of
the newly elected L. Scott Allen, last bishop to be elected by ^Central
Jurisdiction, and, who at the same time was transferred to the South-
eastern Jurisdiction.
This session now being held in Bennett College, Greensboro, North
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Carolina marks the merger of this conference with the aforesaid annual
conferences. Our time has been too limited to uncover and record the
worthy events and contributions of many of our outstanding members and
churches, but we do feel that Galilee Church, Edwardsville, Virginia,
whose history began in the Fairfield Church of the Virginia Conference,
and was organized as a congregation 101 years ago should be mentioned
as one of our historic churches.
As we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain,
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And count our loss all gain.
J. David Kelly, Chairman
B. REPORT FROM THE CONFERENCE TRUSTEES
(Resolution)
WHEREAS the North Carolina-Virginia Conference of the Methodist
Church (formerly of the Central Jurisdiction) is being merged with the
north Carolina Conference, the Virginia Conference and the Western
North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church Southeastern Juris-
diction and
WHEREAS this North Carolina-Virginia Conference now in session is
the desolving conference, Be It Resolved:
1. That the proceeds of the cemetery property in Winston-Salem now
in litigation be granted to St. Andrews church in Winston-Salem.
2. That the property in Raleigh, N. C. be sold and the proceeds be
distributed to the North Carolina Conference and the Western North
Carolina Conference on a ministerial per capita basis. These pro-
ceeds to be designated for the Pensions Fund.
3. That the Bethel church property located near kernersville, be
abandoned and sold and the proceeds granted to St. Paul Church in
Kernersville, N. C.
4. That the Buffalo Church property on the now Western District be
abandoned, sold and the proceeds granted to Harpers Chapel.
5. That the Brown property near Cozart, in Virginia be deeded to the
Virginia Conference.
6. That the Hamlet property be deeded to St. Peters Church in Hamlet,
N. C.
7. That the properties at Old Ford, Union Mill, Franklin and all other
abandoned property, if any, shall pass to the geographical Conference
in which it is located; and
Be it further resolved that the net cash proceeds of this Board be
distributed equally between the North Carolina and Western North Carolina
Conferences and;
Be it further Resolved that the Western North Carolina Conference is
herewith named the successor conference to the North Carolina-Virginia
Conference and the "Old" North Carolina Conference of the Central
Jurisdiction, for legal purposes.
Be it further Resolved that the chairman and secretary of the Trustee
Board of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference be authorized and em-
powered to execute the necessary deeds and documents in behalf of the
Trustee Board to implement this resolution.
Be it further Resolved that the North Carolina-Virginia Conference
Transitional Trustee Board as now constituted is directed, authorized and
empowered to consomate any unforseen changes or conditions that may arise
before the final liquidation of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference
Clarence M. Winchester, Chairman
J. J. Patterson, Secretary
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C. PROGRESS REPORT OF JOINT DISTRIBUTING
COMMITTEE
(Presented to North Carolina-Virginia Conference on March 28, 1968)
Subject to any further changes that may be necessary and to final approval
by the Joint Distributing Committee, it now appears that the following will
be the major terms under which the pension responsibilities and assets
of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference will be distributed to the North
Carolina, Virginia, and Western North Carolina Confeernces in connection
with the merger of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference with such
successor conferences:
1. The pension responsibility of the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Con-
ference on account of years of approved service rendered prior to the
date of transfer of ministerial members, probationers, and full-time
approved supply pastors thereof, as approved by the North-Carolina-
Virginia Annual Conference, is hereby accepted and approved for "annuity
claim" by the successor Annual Conferences, in accordance with the
following principles:
a. All approved service rendered while under appo'ntment to a pastoral
charge shall be accepted by the successor conference within whose
geographical boundaries the charge is located.
b. Any approved service which was rendered while under appointment
other than to a pastoral charge shall be accepted by the several
Annual Conferences in proportion to the number of years of approved
service rendered while under appointment to pastoral charges which
will be distributed to such Annual Conference.
c. Any claim for supply service, which has not been approved and/or
is not a part of the total distribution, shall be the responsibility of
the conference in which is located the charge where such supply
service was rendered.
d. Consecutive years of supply service in the North Carolina-Virginia
Conference together with service in a successor conference shall be
counted as consecutive years in one conference for the purpose of
qualifying such years for pension claims. (See 1964 Discipline of The
Methodist Church, paragraph 1631.)
2. Pension responsibility of the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Con-
ference on account of service rendered prior to the date of transfer shall
be allocated by the Clearing house of the General Board of Pensions to the
successor Annual Conferences in accordance withe principles set forth in
paragraph 1 of this agreement.
3. The pension liability on account of years of approved service rendered
to the transferred churches after the date of transfer shall be the re-
sponsibility of the successor Annual Conference in which such service is
rendered; provided, however, that the Ministers Reserve Pension Fund
conference contributions on behalf of all new entrants, who are partici-
Dating in the Ministers Reserve Pension Fund, shall be continued through
May 31, 1968, based on the North Carolina-Virginia Conference average
salary and paid from the pension funds of that conference; and that the
Ministers Reserve Pension Fund personal contributions continue to be
payable by such ministers through May 31, 1968, on the same basis as for the
period from June 1, 1967 to the date of merger.
4. During the period from the effective date of the merger through
June 30, 1968, the annuities payable to all conference claimants of the North
Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference shall be paid by the General Board
of Pensions on behalf of said conference from funds collected by the North
Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference for that purpose based on the annuity
rate determined by the North Carolina-Virginia Conference.
5 Beginning as of Julv 1, 1968, the annuities payable to conference
claimants on account of the pension responsibility of the North Carolina-
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Virginia Annual Conference shall be paid by the successor Annual Con-
ferences.
6. The pension assets of the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference
remaining, after payments shall have been made, as authorized in Items
3 and 4 above, and as may have otherwise been authorized by the North
Carolina-Virginia Conference or by its Board of Pensions, shall be dis-
tributed to the successor conferences in proportion to the pension re-
sponsibility they receive. The service annuity credits under the Ministers
Reserve Pension Fund, Partial Reserve Pension Fund, and Supply Reserve
Pension Fund related to service in North Carolina-Virginia Annual Con-
ference shall be counted as conference pension assets and shall be dis-
tributed as Service Annuity Accounts. Aany Service Annuity provided
therefrom, at the time of the member's retirement, may be counted as a
part of the pension payable on the basis of the annuity rate of the successor
conference.
7. Any amounts collected by the General Board of Pensions related to
claims or liens filed by the North Carolina-Virginia Conference shall be
allocated to the successor conferences in accordance with the pro-rata
formula used to distribute the assets of the North Carolina-Virginia Con-
ference.
Prepared by Ray E. Whatley
Read to the Confeernce by:
Joseph B. Bethea
D. Composite Report of the District Superintendents
to the
North Carolina- Virginia Annual Conference
March 27, 1968
Bishop Allen, Honored Episcopal Visitors, Ministerial and Lay Members
of the Conference, Friends here and everywhere: "Grace to you and
peace fom him who is and who was and who is to come."
Your servants in the cabinet humbly submit to you this final composit
report of the District Superintendents to the North Carolina-Virginia
Conference. We are grateful indeed to the conference and to our Episcopal
leadership for the privilege of this service to you in this hour of our
history. These are exciting times in the life of the church and we pray
that our performance has been worthy of your confidence.
We cannot come to this historic and prophetic session of our conference
without remembering with gratitude our predecessors in the district
superintendency in this conference and in the East Tennessee, Washington,
Delaware, and North Carolina Annual Conferences: we have sought to
continue their work.
We also remember and pay tribute to our promoted fellow-workers.
When question 39 is asked, the answer will be Benjamin L. Burge, Leander
A. Brown, and Oscar Davenport. These "good ministers-of-Christ Jesus"
served well among us and have "entered into their heavenly rest." They
"died in the work and hope of Christ, receiving the end of their faith —
the salvation of their souls."
It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to cover adequately all of
our concerns in this report. And so, we will report briefly our performance
this year, but the major thrust here will be in the area of those issues
which we feel, must claim our attention now.
A superintendents' work is but the aggregate labor of a great host of
God's people in cities, towns, and the open country. Pastors, lay men and
women have worked hard; they have done the job in the midst of adverse
circumstances, and to them must go the credit for a job well done. We
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thank them all for their devotion to, support of, and cooperation in, the
total program of the church this year. This must be followed by a word of
appreciation for our Ministers' Wives who have stood with us, loyal in
every situation.
The State of the Conference
The 1967 session gave us the mandate to do our best to interpret and
implement the implications of merger. We have done this. Churches have
been grouped and charges realigned to provide, where possible, stronger
ministerial leadership at an adequate salary level. It has been our aim to
provide every Methodist the privilege of a full-time ministry. Geography
and the lack of manpower has somewhat deterred this aim, but definite
progress has been made. The word this year in every gathering of Negro
Methodists in North Carolina and Virginia has been "Merger". We are
moving with resolution to that end. And while there are some among us
also who are "against it," the overwhelming majority of us are "for it."
In the midst of the unrest, God's grace has been sufficient, the people
have cooperated, and we have done the work of the Church. We have
travelled through the districts: we have administered the spiritual and
temporal affairs of the Church. At least two regular and some special
sessions of the Quaterly Conference have been held in each pastoral
charge. District Conferences, as authorized by you have been held in each
district and will be reported to your committee for consideration. Work-
shops in every local church commission area, lay retreats, and youth
rallies have been provided in every district, as well as schools of mission
and other leadership enterprises. A number of our charges will report
their total annual apportionment for General and Annual Conference work
at this session. Others will report 5/6 at this time and complete their
reports before May 15, 1968. The statistical report will reflect our effort to
have our churches report their membership as accurately as possible. The
work has not always been without pain to others and to ourselves, but we
have done our best and we take pride in reporting to you that, in our
estimation, the state of the conference is good.
The Church in Mission
The mission of the church is to be and to do no more, no less than
Christ was and is and did and does in the world. What was the nature of
Christ's Ministry? John W. Deschner, writing in The Christian Mission
Today, describes it as a ministry of healing, preaching, and suffering
which "does not customarily take place within the walls of the religious
institutions. He does preach and heal in synagogues. But he preaches also
in homes, in streets and highways, in fields, at the seaside, in market places,
in the court room. Jesus' ministry then, as now, is a ministry in the
world, among men in their daily lives."
In these days when church leaders are so concerned about the life and
health of the church, we do well to remember that the church must radiate
the spirit of Christ in all it does; and like her Lord, lose her life in service
to people helping them experience the redemptive grace of God. This is the
only justification for the existenc of the church. For though this ministry
of reconciliation is entrusted to us, we must remember that it is of God
and if we are to be the church, ours is always to do what we believe is
God's will for us and not our own, nor that of men.
In his book God's Colony in Man's World, George W. Webber likens
the church to the three dimensional life of the early pilgrims as colonists
on the New England coast. In the vertical dimension "the colony was
utterly dependent upon the homeland if it were to be sustained in the
middle of a hostile world." The Church is absolutely dependent upon the
sustaining grace of God appropriated in worship. In the circular dimension
"there was an unmistakable unity which is the characteristic of those who
know those who know that Jesus Christ is Lord." In the horizontal dimen-
sion "the colony recognized that its only reason for existence was its work in
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the world." The church exists for its mission in all the world — to every
place and to every race of people. To this end we are called and no other.
The Pastoral Ministry
We have seen that the raison d' etre of the church is its work in the
world — its ministry of healing, preaching, and suffering, its ministry of
reconciliation. We have seen that in order to exist for its work, the
church must be sustained in worship. It is the "ekklesia," the "called out
from" people of God. It is the assembly which gathers to celebrate the
gospel, to re-enact the event, to hear the word preached and made visible
m the sacrament. For this coming together, there must be a preacher-
pastor who loves his Lord and his people. He is the father confessor, the
priest, the spiritual advisor, who helps nourish the souls of the people of
God and points them to the source of spiritual food and power. Jesus
asked Peter, "Lovest thou me? . . . Feed my lambs. Feed my sheep." This
is the work of the pastor, and in this day of the emphasis on new forms of
ministry, while we would not de-emphasize these ministries, we must
emphasize the pastoral ministry and recover the sense of its glory. For the
ratio of pastors in our roster of traveling preachers is declining each
year and the trend must be halted if not reversed.
We said preacher-pastor because the first duty of a pastor is "to preach
the gospel." In his book The Trouble With the Church, Helmut Thielicke
writes of the plight of preaching and says: "in the hectic bustle of
ecclesiastical routine it (preaching) appears to be relegated more and more
to the margin of things." In the translator's note, John W. Doberstein
writes of the "pastoral director" who says "what the church wants from its
pastor is more liturgy, sacraments, and celebrations." Deberstein says
"ministers who hold this opinion about preaching should be forbidden
to preach . . . Wherever we find, even in this day, a vital living congre-
gation we find at its center vital preaching." New forms of ministry are
important; we must seek men where they are, but to downgrade the
pastor and the pupit will be fatal to the church.
The need for additional candidates for the ministry must be a continu-
ing concern of the church. We would suggest that the need for additional
Negro candidates for the ministry must be a pressing concern of the merger
conferences. It may well be that Negro pastors will be needed to serve the
Negro constituency for a long time to come. For the road to pastorates
across racial lines must be two-way or it will lead to a dead-end.
The United Methodist Church
The message from the Joint Commissions on Union of the Methodist
Church and The Evangelical United F>rethren Church begins with this state-
ment: "When, during the Uniting Conference in Dallas, Texas, April 20-
May 4, 1968, the president of the Board of Bishops of The Evangelical
United Brethren Church and the president of the Council of Bishops of
The Methodist Church announce that the Plan of Union has been adopted
by the requisite votes of their respective churches, the Plan of Union will
become the Discipline for The United Methodist Church." And so, from
Dallas will come change — innovation that will affect the church at every
level of its life. Proposals for the ministry and for the local church are
far-reaching, and are commended to you for your careful consideration.
Of particular interest to us all is the proposed Local Church Council on
Ministries. This innovation will provide options for local church organi-
zation so that size will not be a factor in programming for mission. We
anticipate the good coming from this union. But since this union embodies
the history and traditions of several churches which are Methodist in
name or tradition, we must deplore that separation of Methodists which
continues only on the basis of race, and urge The United Methodist Church
to set its house in order with regards to its Negro constituency and seek
union with Methodist Denominations which are Negro.
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Merger
We have come to an hour in our history for which manv of our people
have hoped and labored untiringly — the merger of our Annua! Com
with the North Carolina, Western North Carolina, and Virginia Annual
Conferences. There are a great number of advantages for us in the racially
inclusive conferences. Our full-time pastors will enjoy an increased
minimum salary. Increased pensions, which we hope will be effective for
the 1968-69 conference year, will be paid to our conference claimants. The
question has been raised "of what benefit will this merger be to our
Negro Churches?" And we have suggested that the total life of the Negro
local church will be enhanced as administrative and programmatic personnel
are provided on a smaller geographical level. It will be more convenient
for our people to be involved in more enterprises on the district and
sub-district levels. Thus, the performance of our churches will be greatly
improved.
We cannot, in good conscious, report to you that all will be well in the
merged conferences. For in our opinion, merger means merger — the
combination of two or more entities to form one entity, new and district
of itself. The effort of any one entity to retain its former design and
continue to do business as usual must be vigerously resisted. Let our
brethren be assured for now and for all time: We have not come to join.
We have come to merge and from, tomorrow and thereafter, Methodism
in North Carolina and Virginia will never be the same.
,The destiny of the Negro in North Carolina and Virginia Methodism
must be seen as a part of the larger destiny of the church in the two states.
But in the midst of our going we must follow what we believe is God's
will for us. And we cannot now bring ourselves to believe that it is God's
will that segregation should be retained at any level; nor can we be told
that it is God's will that any agency of the merged conferences should
after tomorrow be at anytime thereafter without Negroes. Racial inclusive-
ness at this hour of our history means "with regard to race" to the
extent that Negroes must be a part of every agency — from the lease com-
mittee to the district superintendency.
The Episcopal leadership and the Western North Carolina Conference
are to be commended for the Winston-Salem effort. For until black people
can lead white people, it will be most difficult for white people to lead
black people. Where Negro leadership is unacceptable, white leadership
is also unacceptable.
Our struggle for personhood may lead to conflict in the merged
conferences, but we must love all men. And, acting in mercy and in charity
for all, we will be true and faithful to our Methodist church, and more than
this, we will be true and faithful to our God.
Much could be said here about the church and the Vietnam conflict the
church and the urban crisis, and our own identity with the total Ne^-o
community. These must claim the concern of the church now and are
commended to you for your study and action.
Conclusion
Before the sun shall set tomorrow, the North Carolina-Virginia Annual
Conference will be no more. We have suggested that our history be com-
pleted and recorded for prosterity in the journal of this final session. We
must not forget.
When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord
said to Joshua, "take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a
man. and command them, 'Take twelve stones from here out of the
midst of the Jordan from the very place where the priests' feet stood,
and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where
you ledge tonight.' " Then Joshua called the twelve men from each
tribe; and Joshua said to them, "Passon before the ark of the Lord
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your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a
stone upon his shoulder according to the number of the tribes of the
people of Israel, that this may be a sign among you, when your
children ask in time to come, 'what do these stones mean to You? r Then
you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before
the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan,
the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the
people of Israel a memorial for ever.
We need a memorial for ever — a memorial to the East Tennessee,
Delaware, Washington, North Carolina, and North Carolina-Virginia Annual
Conferences. For more than a century these have served our needs and
nourished our souls. And so the prayer of Kipling is appropriate for this
day and all the days and years of our being
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!
"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that
we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be
glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.
AMEN
James Wesley Gwyn, Sr.
Joseph Benjamin Bethea
James Walter Ferree, Sr.
David DeBerry
E. BOARD OF PENSIONS REPORT
March 27, 1968
We Recommend The Following:
1. That the present apportionments to each pastoral charges for con-
ference claimants, being an amount equivalent to 17% of the total of
the pastor's cash salary and expense allowance in excess of S500.00, be
continued to May 31, 1968, and that all pastoral charges be urged to pay
ihe apportionment in full by that date if they have not already paid in
full for the year.
2. That with the consent of the General Board of Pensions and the approval
of the conference Board of Pensions of the other conferences with
which the North Carolina-Virginia Conference is being merged, the
Death Benefit Program be continued through the year 1968-69 for
eligible persons being transferred from the North Carolina-Virginia
Conference to the three continuing successor conferences, and that
payment for the same be provided from pension funds of the North
Carolina-Virginia Conference.
3. That pensions payable through June 30. 1968 shall continue on the
same basis as for the period from July 1, 1967 to the date of merger,
namely, $40.00 per service year, with the conference paying on the
basis of a S29.96 rate and $10.04 being paid by the Temporary General
Aid Fund. (See Report on page 77, 1967 Journal).
4. The General Board of Pensions, as paying agent for this confernce.
is authorized to draw from existing funds of the conference any amounts
necessary to provide for the above mentioned items.
Submitted by
Oscar W. Burwick, Vice-Chairman
Conference Board of Pensions
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F. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA CONFERENCE
March 26, 1968
Bishop Allen and members of the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Con-
ference, the Conference Board of Missions submits the following report:
The Board held its regular meeting October 27, 1968 at Union Memorial
Methodist Church, Greensboro, North Carolina, with Dr. Nichols repre-
senting The National Division as Consultant. Applications for Mission
Aid were approved as follows:
Central District:
Lauglin Memorial » . . . $ 400
Madison Circuit 900
Mt. Airy, Pilot Mt. Adv 200
Wesley Chapel 300
$1,800
Eastern District:
Asbury, Durham, N. C $ 550
Goldsboro, St. John 400
Red Springs Circuit 300
• Wilmington 400
$1,650
Virginia District:
Edwardsville •. . ... $ 500
Hamilton-Leesville 300
Middleburg . . •. 200
Newport News 600
Norfolk-Pleasant Ridge 900
, Winchester 300
Woodstock-Strasburg . . ...... V v 500
$3,300
Western District:
Forest City $ 300
Marion 300
Mooresville 300
Newton • ■ ■ 300
Shelby 600
Lowesville 200
$2,000
The following churches were added to the priority list: Gallilee St. Home.
Wilkesboro, St. Paul, Rock Hill and Hartzell Memorial. All churches in the
Virginia District were deleted from the list except Edwardsville.
Relocation of Hartzell Memorial, Hickory, North Carolina was approved
and a grant of $6,000 six thousand dollars for land was made by the Board.
Respectfully submitted,
J. J. Patterson, Chairman
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G. CONFERENCE LAY LEADER'S REPORT
Bishop Allen, members of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference, I
greet you for the 12th and last time as your Conference Lay Leader. The
past year has been eventful and the laity has strived to prepare, through
stewardship and Christian Brotherhood, for the coming of this day.
This is a momentous day in history — especially for the laity of the
North Carolina-Virginia Conference. For nearly 100 years, this segment
of the Christian faith has fought and struggled and prayed for just such
a day as this, when all the laity of the household of faith could be one.
Here we are on the threshold of a mighty journey, to practice, by precept
and example, true christian brotherhood. Yes, this is a sunset, it is the
end of a period, but, my brothers and sisters, this is a golden sunset
with all its glorious beauty and radiant brillance. It brings to a climate
all the hopes and fears of all the years that are met in thee today. What
conflicts has it brought — many — but they have been to make us strong.
What opportunities has it brought — many more; for we stand here today
carrying the banner and hailing the cry — The Lord has brought us safe
thus far.
The Liaty, for the past 100 years, have been co-workers in the
ministry with the Clergy, as it should be and as it should continue. It has
been that Gospel of Faith, Hope and Love that you, the Clergy, have held
out to us that has sustained us through many dangers, tiols and snares.
If we have been sustained by that Faith of which you, the Clergy,
have recommended, we have not cause for fear or doubt at a time like
this. For this is the same faith that brought our forefathers through the
period of slavery. Tis the same faith that sustained our mighty warriors
in establishing schools and colleges. Tis the same faith that has brought
about the elimination of the Central Jurisdiction. Are we, as a Laity
weaker, in the faith that they — I say this cannot be, for we have a heritage
to go along with our faith and we know that faith without works is dead.
Who knew in years gone by and who knows but today that we are
destined to times like these and if we are God's Children, we will have
no fear about the tomorrow — For God will make a way somehow.
Why should we, as Christians, be fearful of joining other Christians.
If there is fear or deceit on either side of this merger, then let us be
certain that we are not the peretrator. Then, as God is God and right is
right, we will, with God's help, make the situation right.
Tis Grace hath brought us safe thus far and grace will lead us home.
One of the legends around the story of the wise men coming to
Bethelem is that they represented three different races and three age
groups; Melchoior was a middleaged man from Arabia — he brought Gold:
Casper was an old man from the far east — he brought Frankincense;
Balthasar was a young man from Etheopia — he brought Myrh. They travel-
ed separately until they met each other at a place not far from Jersualem.
There they found they were seeking the same King and decided to continue
their journey together, asking no favor for thmselves but presenting his
own special gift.
How does this apply to today? A truth which the Church has been
slow to accept. No worship is more acceptable to God than that which rises
from an inclusive Church, where people, regardless of race or color,
confess their sins and offer themselves as servants of our Lord.
Thus, as we stand here on this precipis ready, willing and able to
take the venture into this united church, let us go forth with a steadfast
hope that we will meet our brothers there; that we will help to right their
wrongs and they will do the same for us — for we both have wrongs that
must be made right. Is this too much to ask of the Christian Church? Is
this too much to ask of Christians?
Changing times — yes — but with love in our hearts — I mean agappi
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brothern — this will be a joyous struggle. A sunset now but a brighter
sunrise tomorrow, for we will go forth marching as one mighty band of
Methodist: as one great band of Christians; as a great host of the
almighty.
To fear at a time like this can nullify all of our beliefs in the
teachings of Jesus. To have faint hearts at a time like this would show
our faith to be very shallow. To lose our hope at a time like this would
mean we never had the faith.
Let us march onward and upward, raising the banner high — never
faltering and never forgetting.
God has no other hands but our to help a need brother. God has no
other feet but ours to go to a lonely brother. God has no other tongue
but ours to tell the story of his love.
Clarence M. Winchester,
Lay Leader
BOARD OF LAY ACTIVITIES
Clarence M. Winchester, Chairman and Conference Lay Leader
Post Office Box 20108, Greensboro, N. C.
Bruce Hargrove, Vice Chairman Raleigh, North Carolina
Earl Contee, Secretary 308 N. Patrick St., Alexandria, Va.
EASTERN DISTRICT
Lay Leader: S. C. McCorkle Post Office Box 251
Red Springs, N. C.
Associates: S. T. Brooks Lumberton, N. C.
T. A. Bacote Fayetteville State College
Fayetteville, N. C.
James Cummings Rowland, N. C.
Bruce Hargroves Raleigh, N. C.
Luther Fletcher 708 Washington Ave.
Hamlet, N. C.
Dr. Norman Johnson N. C. State College
Durham, N. C.
VIRGINIA DISTRICT
Lay Leader: Richard J. Road 2022 Q St.
Richard, Va.
Associates: Earl N. Contee 308 N. Patrick St.
Alexandria, Va.
L. A. Sydner Booker T. Washington High School
Roanoke, Va.
John Best Arlington, Va.
Harold Mitchell 1107 Lewis St.
Harrisonburg, Va.
Jack Miller Wells Ave., N. W.
Roanoke, Va.
WESTERN DISTRICT
Lay Leader: Alvin Morrison Post Office Box 132
Statesville, N. C.
Associates: Herbert Gidney Route 3, Box 411
Shelby, N. C.
P Person 321 Erwin Ave.
Newton, N. C.
John Jones 420 Finley Ave.
Lenoir, N. C.
62 FOURTH SESSION
Verdell Michaux 116 Arlington Dr
Lenoir, N. C.
Mr. Charlie Houston 719 W. Branch St.
Salisbury, N. C.
CENTRAL DISTRICT
Lay Leader: D. W. Morehead. , Hayes-Taylor Y.M.C.A.
Greensboro, N. C.
Associates: A. W. Harper. 2007 K Court Ave.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
John Lovell Post Office Box 219
Pilot Mountain, N. C.
R. C. Erwin Winston-Salem, N. C.
Oscar Vaughn, Jr 1927 E. 24th St.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
N. S. Morehead 1506 Boundary
High Point, N. C.
Cornelius Holland High Point, N. C.
Edward Belo Rt. 3, Box 272
High Point, N. C.
E. M. Townes, Jr. Reidsville, N. C.
J. W. Sapp Greensboro, N. C.
A. W. Crump Greensboro, N. C.
H. AUDITOR'S REPORT
ERNST & ERNST
Wachovia Building
Winston-Salem, N. C. 27101
March 1, 196S
North Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference,
Greensboro, North Carolina.
We have examined the statement of recorded cash receipts and cash
disbursements of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference for the period
June 6, 1967, through December 31, 1967, in the manner and to the extent
outlined below.
Cash on deposit at December 31, 1967, was reconciled with the balances
reported by the bank and savings and loan association. We were unable
to trace individual recorded receipts to the deposits. We inspected paid
bank checks representing recorded disbursements for the period. No
vouchers, invoices, or other evidence supporting disbursements were
submitted for our inspection. We did not request independent confirmation
of recorded receipts from the various contributing churches and individuals.
As the scope of our examination did not include independent confir-
mation of cash receipts, and as vouchers, invoices or other evidence sup-
porting disbursements were not available, we are unable to express an
opinion upon the statement of recorded cash receipts and cash disburse-
ments.
Ernst & Ernst
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
63
STATEMENT OF RECORDED CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
For the period June 6, 1967, througrh December 31, 1967
Cash balance June 6, 1967
Cash receipts:
Checking account:
Deposit per bank statements $122,206.32
Less returned checks per bank statements 1,338.00
$ 39,491.25
Savings account:
Interest
120,868.32
226.71
Cash disbursements:
Africa Project Communion Offering
Area conference administration
Area residence (Nashville- Carolina)
Board of Education
Board of Lay Activity
Board of Missions
Board of Missions — temporary general aid
Board of Trustees expense
Central District expense
Christian Social Concern
Church extension — building assistance
Conference on Christian Education —
registration fee
Conference Claimants and Pension Reserve—
The General Board of Pensions
Conference journals, programs, and reports
Conference secretary
Conference session expenses
District Leadership Training School
District Superintendents' salaries and expenses
Rev. J. B. Bethea $5,875.02
Rev. Richard L. Clifford 633.34
Rev. David DeBerry 5,875.02
Rev. James W. Ferree 5,875.02
Rev. J. W. Gwyn 5,875.02
Eastern District expense
Evangelism
Executive Secretary's salary
General Board — temporary general aid
Higher education:
Bennett College apportionment
Jurisdictional entertainmeni
Jurisdictional treasury
TOTAL
355.00
2,520.00
1,219.00
187.46
215.81
202.35
100.00
89.40
487.00
89.62
1,000.00
30.00
17,655.79
1,563.38
800.00
229.82
75.00
24,133.42
124.00
418.64
1,533.34
500.00
7,741.27
1,533.00
965.00
121,095.03
160,586.28
64 FOURTH SESSION
STATEMENT OF RECORDED CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
CONTINUED
Cash disbursements — continued:
Methodist Conference on Christian Education S 256.00
Minimum salaries
5,900.00
Mission aid salaries
5,112.73
Mortgage loan payments:
Faith Memorial (Richmond) $397.72
Norfolk Methodist 993.42
1,391.14
M**^.Vht!1 1 n Pn*./\liMO A TT"1
Scholarship
585.00
National Consultation on Church
in Community Life
291.25
Pastors' Area School
832.00
Professional services
325.00
Refunds
25.00
Statistician service
370.00
Supplementary salary — G. L. Tate, Jr.
800.00
Temporary general aid
450.00
Treasurer's bond
50.00
Treasurer's salary and expense
1,458.31
Virginia District expense
1,265.00
Western District expense
557.00
Miscellaneous
219.04
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
S83.655.77
Cash balance — December 31, 1967:
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company —
checking account 69,635.38
American Federal Savings & Loan Association —
savings account 7,295.13
$76,930.51
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 65
I. MINISTERS' WIVES REPORT-
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA CONFERENCE,
MARCH 28, 1968
Officers: Leontine T. Kelly, President
Eutha Mae Laughlin, Vice President
Margaret Powell, Secretary
Bernice, Gwyn, Treasurer
Bishop Garber, and members of the Conference, the Ministers' Wives
are happy to make this final report. These faithful women — and those
others unable to be here today — have through the years, played a supportive
role as partners in the parsonage. In addition to their local responsibilities
they have willingly contributed personally and through their charges to
the Ministers Pension Fund. This was not required of them, but desired
by them, for they are, by committment, a contributive factor in the con-
ference and the church. They do not intend to end their service in a
new relationship, for they enter new conferences with open minds — both
receptive and contributive; open hearts and open hands willing to continue
to share the work of love.
We wish to update the conference treasurers' report on our contri-
bution to the Ministers' Pension Fund. Reported from the Central District—
$1,054; from the Eastern District $165; from the Virginia District— $1,166;
and from the Western District $620; making a total to date of $3,005.
In a final meeting on yesterday the ministers' wives voted to give the
remaining funds; in their treasury— $100— to a worthy foreign student
now matriculating at Bennett College. This final act of service in this
relationship is indicative of the strong tie of fellowship which we now
willingly sever to bring the kingdom of God nearer at hand. We fir mis-
believe that we cannot be both Christian and segregated. The separation
itself bars the opportunity to share God's love as freely as He has
given it to us.
It was with this realization that we closed our meeting with a
fellowship circle and repeated the inspiring words of James Weldon
Johnson— writen for another day, but peculiarly fitting for our own—
we share them with you . . .
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NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 83
TREASURERS REPORT CONT'D.
RECEIPTS FOR THE CONFERENCE YEAR
JUNE 7, 19G7 - MARCH 22, 1968
Brought forward from June 7, 1967 - December 31, 1967:
from Rev. L. A. Brown, Treasurer $ 69,635.38
Received from charges — January 1, 1968 - March 22, 1968 53,459.00
Board of National Mission Aid 2,637.60
Loan 14,000.00
Total Receipts $129,731.98
DISBURSEMENTS
District Superintendents $ 9,399.96
Mrs. Wessaye T. Brown 208.33
Clay Printing Co. (Balance on Conference Journals) 955.75
Postage Stamps 34.50
J. W. Gwyn, Sr., Treasurer 624.99
Mrs. G. Haven Caldwell (Treasurer W.S.C.S. - repay loan) 4,000.00
Piedmont Office Supply 11-09
Conference Board of Education 624.28
Conference Board of Pensions 57.10
Conference Board of Trustees 123.14
Board of Christian Social Concerns 224.00
Conference Board of Missions - Church Extension 3,988.60
National Board of Mission Aid $ 2,712.60
G. L. Tate, Jr. Conference Board of Missions 300.00
Mortgage Note - Norfolk Methodist Church 976.00
Office of Machine - repair of adding machine 36.75
Gulf Coast Area - Administration Fund 761.00
Refunds 107.01
Council on World Service and Finance 15,500.00
Episcopal Fund $ 3,000
World Service 10,000
Fellowship of Suffering 700
Inter-Denominational Cooperation 500
General Administration 1,000
Temporary General Aid 300
A. E. Robinson, Conference Secretary 206.70
Bethlehem Center (Charlotte, N. C.) 100-0°
Total $ 36,963.10
Total Receipts $129,731.98
Total Disbursements 36,963.10
$ 92,768.88
Deposited with
American Federal Savings 7,295.13
$100,064.01
£4 FOURTH SESSION
SECTION NUMBER SEVEN
RESOLUTIONS
A. ORGANIZATIONAL RESOLUTION
Whereas we wish to facilitate orderly and effective operation of the
fourth session of the North Carolina-Virginia Conference, be it resolved:
1. That the bounds of the Conference be established as the first
twelve rows of seats from the front of the Annie Merner Pfeiffer
Chapel;
2. That J. H. McCallum be elected Pianist for the Conference;
3. That James T. Jones be elected as Song Leader for the Conference;
4. That Liston Sellers be elected as Postmaster for the Conference;
5. That the printed program, after necessary corrections and /or
modifications, be accepted as the guide and agenda for the Con-
ference ;
6. That W. T. Brown be elected Reporter, and D. S. Harkness Associ-
ate Reporter, to the religious and secular press for the Conference;
7. That the roll of Conference Members be called verbally with each
member answering "present" or "here' r after his name, and his
only, is called;
8. That the roll of Lay Delegates be acknowledged by registration
cards since many Reserves will be present in place of the Delegate.
Avery E. Robinson, Secretary
B. RESOLUTION ON BOUNDS AND WORK OF
TRANSITIONAL TRUSTEE BOARD
THE CABINET
TO: THE NORTH CAROLINA- VIRGINIA CONFERENCE
RESOLUTION
1. That the Conference be reduced from four to three districts so that
there will be one district in the bounds of each Conference — Western
North Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
2. That the Transitional Trustee Board be impowered to carry on all
conference matters pertaining to their function, after this conference
adjourns.
C. RESOLUTION TO ABANDON AS A PREACHING
PLACE AND DISPOSE OF PROPERTY OF ASBURY
CHURCH IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT
Whereas the District Superintendent and the District Board of Church
Building and Location have investigated Asbury Church, Fayetteville,
North Carolina, and found no adult persons, members of the church, to
carry on programs as an organized church, be it resolved that this
property be declared abandoned as a preaching place and sold — the
proceeds, after satisfaction of all encumbrances, to be used 70% for the
reduction of mortgage on the John Wesley Church in Fayetteville, North
Carolina, and 30% divided between the Mount Olive Church, Lumberton,
North Carolina, and the Saint George Church, Maxton, North Carolina.
Eastern District Board of Church Building and Location
James W. Ferree, District Superintendent
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
D. RESOLUTION TO DISPOSE OF LOT AT SOUTHERN
PINES, NORTH CAROLINA IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT
Whereas the District Superintendent and the District Board of Church
Building and Location have investigated conditions in the City of Southern
Pines, North Carolina, and found no adult members to carry on programs
as an organized church, nor have any of such activities existed there for
several years, be it resolved that this lot be declared abandoned as a
preaching place and sold — the proceeds, after satisfaction of all encum-
brances, to be used for the reduction of mortgage on the Saint Peter Church,
Wagram, North Carolina.
Eastern District Board of Church Building and Location
James W. Ferree, District Superintendent
A RESOLUTION
E. FROM THE INTERCONFERENCE COMMISSION ON
CAMPUS MINISTRY
We, the Executive Committee of the Interconference Commission on
Campus Ministry, meeting at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, High
Point, N. C, on February 12, 1968, do resolve:
That the Interconference Commission on Campus Ministry express
appreciation for the dedicated service given in the cause of Christian
Higher Education through the years by our late Vice Chairman, the
Reverend L. A. Brown. He was a man of compassion. Even when his votes
helped to determine how hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent,
he never lost sight of his stewardship: he saw not just dollars distributed,
but the ministry of Christ extended to persons.
As a tangible expression of appreciation of our deceased brother, we
covenant to canvass the members who served with Mr. Brown during his
tenure of the last eight years on the Commission, so that all who wish may
make financial contributions in his memory to scholarship assistance at
Bennett College, the school of which he and several of his daughters were
graduates.
Be it resolved further:
That we invite our fellow Methodists of North Carolina and their
friends to contribute to this Fund. If the Fund reaches as much as 51,000.
it will be set up officially in the College as the L. A. Brown Memorial
Scholarship Assistance Fund, from which the interest will be used to aid
needy students. Otherwise, the principle will be used for scholarship
assistance as the President of the College directs.
We request that this resolution be recorded in our minutes and that
copies of it be sent to Mrs. Brown, to President Isaac Miller of Bennett
College, to Bishop Scott Allen with the request that it be read to the final
session of the North Carolina-Virginia Annual Conference of the Methodist
Church to be held at Bennett College March 26 - 28, 1968, and to the North
Carolina Christian Advocate with the request that it be printed therein.
James G. Huggin, Chairman
James C. Stokes, Secretary
F. RESOLUTION FROM THE COMMITTEE ON
COURTESY
BENNETT COLLEGE
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Whereas : March 28, 1968
The fourth and final session of the North Carolina-Virginia Annual
86 FOURTH SESSION
Conference did meet on the campus of Bennett College, Greensboro, North
Carolina: and,
Whereas:
This session, unprecedented in its historical impact on posterity,
was provided for and set smoothly in motion by the combined efforts of
the Reverends J. W. Gwyn and J. C. Peters, host superintendent and pastor
respectively; and,
Whereas :
As a direct result of recent developments within the Church, our
fourth session was privileged to have as its presiding officer the newly-
elected Bishop L. Scott Allen, who with fatherly wisdom and fraternal
empathy patiently assisted us in lessening the painful convulsions of an
annual conference passing into history. Many and devious were the intri-
cacies concurrent in the eminent changes, and our bishop was skillful and
meticulous as he guided us through the morass of possibilities, and;
Whereas :
Even though regular processes of education and life had the facilities
of Bennett College taked to capacity, the school, nevertheless, went out
her usually hospitable way for our comfort and enjoyment, thereby making
our difficult task more bearable with its singers and music department
and;
Whereas:
The good people of St. Matthews Church, our host church, did in
every way facilitate our joint efforts, with the use of its hymnals, choir,
church, fellowship room, and ushers warmth of welcome, and,
Whereas :
The long list of General Board members, agency representatives, and
visitors from surrounding conferences, did indicate their togetherness
with us, even to the charming of our session by the presentation of the
first lady of the Area, Mrs. L. Scott Allen, and the Episcopal presences
of Bishops Gum, Garber and Hunt inspired us with hope, and
Whereas.
As the work and business of the Conference preceeded, prodded con-
stantly on by the incisive admonitions of our resident bishop, and Bishop
Charles F. Golden, nostal-gia gradually began to give way to an air of
thrilled expectancy, as we realized that our rondevous with destiny was
upon us, and,
Whereas:
Dr. Major J. Jones, president of Gammon Theological Seminary, and
Dr. Isaac H. Miller, president of Bennett did pick up the challenge of
those who decry the need for Christian Higher Education, in the face of
moral and cultural bankruptcy,
be it therefore resolved:
That each of us go down from this encounter with destiny, each of us,
those who preach, and those who are preached at, resolved to gird our
lives about us and move out confidently into the nebulous atmosphere of
a bright new future, pregnant with undreamed of possibilities chanting as
we go —
We have come, over a way that
With tears have been watered;
We have come treading the path
Through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past
Till now we stand at lost
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
Always remembering from whense we have come, and how we have
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 8 7
come, we stand brazenly tall as sons of God and pray to Him who is our
Father — >
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us
Thus far on our way —
Thou who has by thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in thy paths
We pray —
Lest our feet, stray from
The places our God where we
Met thee —
Lest our hearts drunk with
The wine of the world we
Forget thee:
Facing the rising sun;
Of a new day begun —
Let us march on,
Till victory is won.
Done by the Committee
J. P. Haskins
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FOURTH SESSION
SECTION NUMBER NINE
RECORD OF PASTORAL SERVICE
A. CHRONOLOGICAL ROLL OF YEAR FIRST ADMITTED
TO FULL CONNECTION IN A CONFERENCE
1902 Charles S. Briggs 1948
1905 Walter T. Lomax 1950
1908 Gilbert Haven Caldwell 1950
1914 Benjamin Laddie Burge 1950
1918 William Henry Polk 1950
1918 Grandison M. Phelps 1953
1919 Arthur M. Ervin 1953
1924 Robert Belton McRae 1954
1929 Robert Felton McCallum 1954
1930 George Edward Hogue 1955
1931 Leander Anthony Brown 1955
1933 Ernest Eugene Arter 1957
1934 Robert Calvin Sharpe 1958
1935 Ira Amos Friend 1958
1935 Marcus Samuel Laughlin 1958
1937 William R. Royster, Sr. 1959
1938 John Quilla Dula 1959
1938 Le Mon Mayfield 1960
1940 Richard Lorenzo Clifford 1961
1941 Oscar Wilkins Burwick 1961
1942 Lanneau Hartennui Davis 1961
1943 T. C. Tarpley 1962
1943 James Franklin Sawyer 1962
1943 Ralph David Sharpe 1963
1943 Samuel Lloyd Townsend 1963
1944 Otis L. Jasper 1963
1944 James Hector McCallum 1963
1945 Clarence Elroy Strickland 1963
1946 William Richard Crawford 1964
1946 Alonzo Arthur W. Stowe 1965
1947 John Wesley Jones 1965
1947 Glenn Albert Brooks 1966
William Harrison Phillips
Joseph Franklin Haskins
James Enoch McCallum
James Wesley Gwyn, Sr.
James Turner Jones
James Calvin Peters
Rawle Seymour Porte
Alexander Matthan Anderson
James Walter Ferree, Sr.
Thaddeus Herbert Williams
Joseph Benjamin Bethea
Godfrey Lafayette Tate, Jr.
Avery Edward Robinson
Theodore Allen Powell
James Moses Pannell
Liston Sellers, Jr.
James Henry Shiver
Elwood Jennings Jones
David DeBerry
Kenneth Carl MC Neil
Samuel Evans NeSmith
Cecil Harvey Marcellus, Jr.
Calvin B. Jenkins
John Wesley Curry, Jr.
Henry Joyner, Jr.
Joseph BeBee Jowers
Charles Edward Tyson
William Lrancis Elliott
Lonnie Thomas
Kenneth Edward Frazier
Carl Wayland Renick
William Thomas Robinson
B. RECORD OF PASTORAL SERVICE
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ADAMS, DONALD CONRAD, SR.
1964 Fairfax 2
1955 Trfd. Baltimore Conf.
MEMBERS
1965 Rec'd. in N. C.-Va. Conf.:
St. Matthews 1
Died: 9-24-65
ANDERSON, ALEXANDER M.
Assoc 1
1952 Dela. Conf. Brooklyn
1953 Rec'd. in Lex. Conf.
Cory Assoc 1
1954 Racine 1
1955 Chicago-Rust 2
1957 Rec'd. in So. West;
Little Rock: Wesley 2
1959 Rec'd. in Tenn. Conf.
Nashville: Clark 6
ARTER, E. E.
1933 Morganton & Kingswood . 1
1934 Alderson-Hinton 2
1936 Ronmey 2
1938 Grottoes, Va 2
1940 Buchanan 1
1941 Brookville 7
1948 Atholton 11
1959 Falls Church 6
1965 Retired
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ASHFORD, JAMES DAVID
1950 Upper Mississippi Conf. 1
1950 Ripley Ct
1951 West Point 1
1952 Ackerman 1
1953 In School
1956 Transferred to North
Carolina Conf. 6-2-56
1956 Leaksville . . 1
1957 Newton Granite Falls 1
1958 E. Thomasville 2
1960 Maxton 1
1961 Elkin 1
1962 Sabbatical Leave
1965 Involuntary Location
BAILEY, C. W.
1946 Wilkesboro, Boone
1956 Statesville Ct
BEANE, CHARLES WENDELL
1959 Arlington
1964 Appointed to attend
school
BETHEA, JOSEPH B.
1952 In School
1953 Walhalla
1954 Ninety Six
1956 Received in the N.
Conf.
1959 Elkin, Jonesville .
1961 Reidsville
1965 Supt.: Va. Dist. .
BLACK, RUGENE
1943 Brown Summit
1949 Basses, Raleigh
1959 S. Greensboro
1960 Goshen ,
BROOKS, GLENN A.
1945 Marion
1947 Statesville
1949 Asheboro
1959 Lexington, Midway . .
1960 East Thomasville,
Midway . .
1965 Thomasville, St. Johns
BROWN, LEANDER A.
1929 In School
1931 Pen Hook 2
1933 High Point Brooks Mem. . . 1
1934 Lexington 5
1939 Lenoir . . 1
1940 Asheville, Berry Temple ..17
1957 Supt. : Winston Dist 3
1960 Supt.: Greensboro Dist. .. 3
1963 Union Memorial,
Greensboro 4
Died: 1-16-68
BROWN, WILLIAM T.
1943 Kingston 1
1944 Marumsco, Kingston 2
1946 Maxton; Piney Grove .. 2
1948 Raleigh 3
1951 Fayetteville 3
1954 Greensboro, Union Mem. . . 3
1957 Supt.: Greensboro Dist. .. 3
1960 Browning Chapel 1
Celia Phelps
1961 Browning Chapel, Wesley
Foundation, A&T College 3
1964 Wesley Foundation, A&T
College, Trinity 4
BURGE, BENJAMIN L.
1912 Lincolnton Ct 2
1914 Kings Mt. ; Lincolnton .... 1
1915 Lenoir Ct 1
1916 Denver, Ebenezer . . 1
1918 Ebenezer, Cornelius . . 1
1919 W. Asheville, Waynes-
ville 2
1921 Bessemer City 5
1926 Lawndale, Brooks 3
1929 Newton, Conover 3
1932 Lenoir 4
1936 Marion 4
1940 Statesville, Phila 2
1942 Statesville Ct 2
1944 Newton Ct 13
1957 Retired
1957 Mt. Holly 11
Died 1-7-68
BURLEY, TERRY J.
1941 Mt. Airy 4
1941 Upper Marlboro-St. Luke 3
1948 In Schol
1953 Withdrawn
1963 Readmitted
1963 Staunton, Va. 2
1965 N. C.-Conf. Lexington 2
1967 Lynchburg-Bedford 1
EURWICK, OSCAR W.
1939 Lenoir City
1940 Forest City
1941 Forest City, Shelby
1942 Boulware Chapel
1943 Johns, Beaver Dam
1944 Gastonia, Cherryville
1948 Maxton
1949 Hickory 3
1952 Maxton 1
1953 Asheboro 5
1958 Raleigh 6%
1964 High Point, St. Mark %
1965 High Point, St. Mark .... 1
1986 Newton 2
EYNUM, CHARLES G.
1926 Empire
1928 Newton, Conover 2
100
FOURTH SESSION
1930 Zion Hill, Hazes 2
1932 Old Fort, Gladees ... 1
1933 Greensboro, Southwest 1
1934 Greensboro, Extension ... 4
1939 Walkertovvn Chester Gr. . . 1
1939 Mt. Holly Ct 1
1940 Johns, Beaver Dam 1
1941 Advance, Oak Grove 4
1943 Rural Hall, Pilot Mt 2
1947 Randleman, St. Peters,
Mt. Zion 2
1950 Lincolnton 3
1953 Mt. Airy 3
1956 Penhook Ct 1
1957 Cox Chapel, Shady Gr 3
1960 Kings Mt.; St. Paul,
East Bethel 1
1951 Oxford Ct. 1
1962 Wilkesboro & Harpers 1
1963 Ramseur 1
1964 Piney Grove-Beauty Spot . . 1
1965 Rural Hall 1
1966 Retired
CALDWELL, GILBERT HAVEN
1908 North Greensboro 1
1909 In School
1910 Liberty, Glenola 1
1911 West Asheville 2
1913 Statesville, Phila 1
1914 West Raleigh 3
1917 In School
1910 YMCA Army Work 3
1919 Bennett College (Prof.) . . 2
1921 Bennett College (Dean) . . 2
1923 Samuel Houston College 2
Prof.
1925 Asheville 5
1930 Laurinburg, Cool Springs 1
1931 Supt. : Western Dist. 6
1937 Winston-Salem, St. Paul . 4
1941 Conference Youth
Counselor . 3
1944 Dallas, Texas, St. Paul . . 4
1948 Conf. Secretary
Evangelism 1
1949 Wesley Tab., Galveston ... 2
1951 Faculty, Samuel Houston
College 1
1952 Professor, Calfin College 2
1954 Ramseur, Laughlins 3
1957 Reidsville 4
1961 Retired; Celia Phelps 6
CLIFFORD, R. L.
1938 In School
1940 Frostburg 1
1941 Johnstown 1
1942 Grafton & Morgantown . . 3
1945 Montgomery 2
1957 Keyser-Piedmont 1
1948 Wheeling 5
1953 Simpson 2
1955 Centennial 4
1959 Supt. Va.-Wash. Dist 6
1965 N. C.-Va. Conf. Executive
Secretary 2
1967 St. Andrews-W. -Salem 1
COLE, WYATT P.
1946 Oak Grove, Red Bank 2
1948 Oak Grove, Rural Hall,
Red Bank 2
1950 Advance, Elkin 1
1951 Advance, Pilot Mt.,
Jones, Temple 4
1955 Pilot Mt., Mount Airy 2
1957 Trinity Ct. 2
1959 Trinity: St. Mary's 5
1964 Forest City, Union Mills . 1
1965 Piney Grove Ct 1
1966 Union Parish 2
CORRY, JOHN G.
1955 Upper Mississippi Conf. . . 1
1956 Transferred to N. C. Conf.
1956 In School, Gammon
Seminary
1957 Leaksville 3
1960 Greensboro: St. Matthews 5
1965 Trfd. to Tenn.-Ky. Conf.
CRAWFORD, WILLIAM R.
1943 In School
1947 Winston-Salem, Mt.
Pleasant 18
1965 Brooks Memorial, High
Point 3
CURRY, J. WESLEY
1963 Appointed to attend
School . . 1
1964 Dillon: St. Stephens,
S. C. Conf 2
1966 Claflin College 1
1967 Trfd. N. C.-Va. Conf.
Richmond: Wesley 1
DAVIS, L. H.
1942 Morefield 3
1945 Anderson-Hinton . 1
1946 Fallston-Fed. Hill 2
1948 Huntingstown 4
1952 W. Staunton 2
1954 Hereford 4
1958 Sparrow Point 1
1959 Altholton 2
1961 Sabbatical 1
1962 Edwardsville 1
1963 Winchester 1
1964 Lexington-B. V 3
1967 Hamilton-Leesburg 1
DEBERRY, DAVID
1960 Associate Laurel
1961 Winchester 2
NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
L01
1963 Roanoke 3
1966 Supt. Western District 2
DUNGEE, CLYDE EVAN
1961 Fairmont and St. Peter ... 1
1962 John's, St. Peter 2
1964 Madison 3
1967 Ramseur 1
DULA, JOHN Q.
1936 Pen Hook 2
1938 Randleman 2
1940 Empire Circuit 4
1944 Forest City 4
1948 Elkin, Jonesville 8
1956 Shelby Ct 1
1957 Mooresville Ct 3
1960 Marion, Old Fort 7
1967 Retired
ELLIOTT, W. F.
1963 Mooresville 1
1964 Red Springs 4
ERWIN, ARTHUR M.
1918-1945 Charges in the
N. C. Conf. . . . 28
1947 Transferred to the
Wash. Conf 9
1956 Retired
Died: 9-29-65
FERREE, JAMES W.
1949 Statesville, Phila 6
1955 Maxton, Beauty Spot 2
1957 Lumberton, Beauty Spot 6
1963 Winston-Salem:
St. Andrews-Walnut Cove 2
1965 Dist. Supt. Eastern Dist. . . 3
FRAZIER, KENNETH E.
1961 Nashville Mission 1
1962 Shelbyville 1
1963 Springfield 1
1964 In School
1°65 Rec'd. in N. C.-Va. Conf.:
Arlington-Falls 2
1967 Raleigh 1
FRIEND, IRA A.
1928 Red Bank, Sunny Home ... 1
1929 Walkertown, Zion Hill,
Hayes Chapel 7
1936 Johns, Salem ... 1
1937 Walkertown, Walnut Cove 1
1938 Walnut Cove, Hayes
Chapel 1
1939 Lowesville, Tuckers 1
1940 Mooresville Ct 9
1949 Mount Airy, Jones
Temple 1
1950 Wesley Chapel,
Chapel Hill 5
1955 Red Springs 3
1958 Mt. Zion, Thila. 1
1959 Advance 1
1960 Retired, Advance 1
1961 Oxford Ct. .7
GRAHAM, OSCAR M.
1944 Bolton 1
1945 In School
1948 Forest City 1
1949 Gastonia 1
1950 Chaplain, U. S. Army 5
1955 Goldsboro 3
1958 Bolton 1
1959 Maxton 1
6-5 — '60 Transferred to East
Tenn. Conf.
9-60 Transferred to N. C. Conf.
1961 Hamlet: St. Peters .4
1965 Cool Springs, Hoffman 1
1966 Maxton-Johns 2
GREEN, H. A.
1925 In School
1926 Bedford 1
1927 Morgantown, W. Va 2
1929 Johnstown, Pa 3
1932 Aliquippa 1
1933 Lewisburg, W. Va 3
1936 Charleston, W. Va 6
1943 Sarp St., Balto 1
1943 Lynchburg 2
1945 McKeesport 3
1948 St. Mary's Parish 5
1953 Fairmont-Morganton 2
1955 Staunton 4
1959 Alexandria 6
1964 Retired
GWYN, JAMES W.
1948 In School
1951 Ramseur 2
1953 Oxford 4
1957 Winston-Salem: St. An-
drews, Walnut Cove 6
1963 Supt. Greensboro Dist. 2
1965 Supt. Central Dist
HARRISTON, W. E.
1917 Empire
1918 Newport News 1
1919 Roland, Salem
1921 Leaksville 5
1926 South High Point 2
1928 High Point: Brooks Mem. 1
1929 Luhberton
1936 Hickory . . . . ... 3
1939 Leave of Absence
1940 Brown Summit Ct.
1941 Asheboro, Mitchell .... 5
1946 Greensboro : High Street . . 8
1954 Sabbatical Leave 1
1955 Wesley, Chapel Hill . .
102
FOURTH SESSION
1959 Wesley
1960 Retired: Wesley ...
1961 No Appointment
1965 Died
HARKNESS, DAVID S.
1935 Spring Hill, Central
Ala. Conference 1
1936 Scottsboro, Central
Ala. Conference 1
1937 In School
1940 Center Grove Ct., Central
Ala. Conference 2
1942 Waynesboro, Savannah,
Ga., Conference 1
1943 Macon, Savannah,
Ga., Conf 1
1944 Chaplain U. S. Army 4
1948 Murf reesboro 1
1949 Transferred to N. C. Conf.
1949 Gastonia 1
1950 Kings Mountain 1
1951 Chaplain U. S. Army .... 1
1952 Red Springs 1
1953 Maxton 2
1955 Marion 5
1960 Leaksville 4
1964 Browning Chapel 2
1966 Sabbatical Leave 1
1967 Durham 1
HASKINS, JOSEPH F.
1949 In School
1950 Mount Vernon 3
1953 Laurel 7
1960 Sabbatical Leave
1961 Middleburg 2
1963 Woodlawn 1
1964 Falls Church 3
HOGUE, GEORGE E.
1929 Lenior Ct. 1
1930 Pen Hook 1
1931 Franklin 3
1934 Johns, Beaver Dam 1
1935 Johns, Salem 1
1936 Red Springs, St. Marks,
Hickory Bend 6
1942 Charlotte: Simpson Mem... 1
1943 Supt. : Western Dist 6
1949 Exec. Sec. Conference ... 2
Board of Education
1951 Laurinburg 13
1965 Phila., Brooks 1
1966 Hamlet %
1966 Died
JASPER, OTIS L.
1942 Lincoln, Purcellville 16
1958 Hamilton 2
1960 Purcellville 7
JENKINS, C. B.
1958 East Tenn. Conf 2
1960 In School
1963 Trfd. into N. C. Conf.
1963 Newton-Granite Falls 3
1966 Staunton 1
1967 Gastonia 1
JONES, JAMES T.
1950 Browning Chapel . 1
1951 Gastonia: Epworth .6
1957 Gastonia, Beesemer City . . 1
1958 Gastonia 1
1960 Durham 2
1962 Brooks Mem. 1
1963 Asheville: Berry Tern 5
JONES, JOHN WESLEY
1943 Rural Hall, Pilot Mtn. ... 2
1945 E. Thomas ville-Hoover
Chapel 1
1946 E. Thomas ville, Hoover
Chapel and Andrews Grove 2
1948 E. Thomasville, Hoover
Chapel and Chestnut Grove 10
1958 Asheboro: St. Luke, St.
Mark ... 1
1959 Mitchell added to charge 8
1967 Basses and Raleigh
Cross Rds 1
JOWERS, J. B.
1963 Transfered to N. C.
Conference
1963 Prof. Bennett College 1
St. Mark's: High Point
1964 Mount Carmel 4
JOYNER, HENRY, JR.
1960 Collins Grove, Holmes
Grove . . 1
1961 Lexington 3
1964 Raleigh Crossroads 1
1963 Lumberton 2
1967 Trfd.— S. C. Conf.
KELLEY, J. DAVID
1926 Methodist Episcopal Church 1
1927 In Seminary 3
1930 African Methodist Church 15
1946 Delaware Conference
St. Paul, Jamaica 8
1954 East Tennessee Conference
East Vine Avenue 4
1958 Washington Conference
Wesley Memorial 9
1967 Galilee, Edwardsville 2
LAUGHLIN, M. SAMUEL
1933 Pen Hook 3
1936 Ramseur 4
1940 Red Springs, Beauty
Spot 1
1941 Marion, Old Fort 1
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1942 Marion Ct. . 2
1944 Marion : Addie Chapel 1
1945 Madison, Stoneville 2
1947 Winston-Salem, St.
Andrew's 6
1953 St. Home, Winston-
Salem 2
1955 Statesville 1
1956 Wilkesboro Ct 2
1958 Lowesville 2
1960 Lowesville, Motts Gr 1
1961 Lowesville, St. Paul 2
1963 Lenoir 5
LOMAX, WALTER T.
1903 Greensboro, High Street .2
1905 Central Randolph 5
1910 Reidsville Ct. 2
1912 Greensboro, South 3
1915 Greensboro, Northwest .... 9
1924 Hickory 5
1929 Reidsville 4
1933 High Point, St. Mark's .... 9
1941 Basses, Raleigh Cross-
roads 8
1949 Retired
1950 Brown Summit Charge 8
1958 Kernersville 1
1959 No Appointment
Died 11/12/65
MARCELLUS, CECIL H. JR.
1956 Hartsville Ct 1
1957 Nashville-Braden 7
1964 Memphis-Warren 1
1965 Rec'd. in N. C.-Va. Conf.:
Reidsville 3
McCALLUM, F. FELTON
1937 Tazewell 1
1938 S. Pittsburg 1
1939 Chattanooga, Grace 2
1941 Clade Springs Ct 1
1942 Winchester 1
1943 Stubenville 2
1945 Maysville 2
1946 Evansville, Rockport 2
1948 Detroit Mitchell Mem 1
1949 Owensboro 1
1950 New Zion 2
1952 New London, Sec. Meth. 1
1953 Newport News 1
1954 Sanford Ct 1
1955 Kings Mountain 2
1957 Red Springs 2
1959 Chapel Hill 1
1960 Chapel Hill Ct 1
1961 Brown Summit 1
1962 Ramseur 1
1D63 Retired
McCALLUM, JAMES ENOCH
1947 In School
1950 Newport News and
Pleasant Ridge 1
1951 Conference Director of
Religious Education 5
1956 Chaplain, Wiley Chapel 9
1964 Gastonia 3
1967 Charlotte 1
McCALLUM, JAMES H.
1942 Hoffman Ct 2
1944 Bomore, Mt. Zion 4
1948 Bomore, Piney Grove 1
1949 Laurinburg, Cool Springs 2
1951 Maxton 2
1953 Cool Springs, Hoffman . . 3
1956 Johns St., Piney Gr 7
1963 Fayetteville; John Wesley 5
McCALLUM, MARSHALL
1921 Greensboro; Northwest ... 3
1924 In School
1927 Shelby, Kings Mt 1
1928 Boston Univ., Asst. Pastor,
Fourth St. Meth. Church,
Boston, Mass 1
1929 Newport News 1
1930 Calffin College 4
1934 Orangeburg, Trinity
Charge, Prof., Allen
Univ 10
1945 Lenoir 3
1948 Reidsville, Mt. Zion 3
1951 Hamlet 6
1957 Asheville 6
1963 High Point, Brooks Mem. . . 2
1965 Shelby 3
McCALLUM, ROBERT FRANK
1926 Arlington 1
1927 Elkin 3
1930 Greensboro, South 3
1933 Leaksville 2
1935 Winston-Salem, St.
Andrews 7
1942 Supt.: Winston Dist 3
1945 Supt.: Laurinburg Dist. .. 3
1948 St. John, Midway 7
1955 St. Home 4
1959 Mt. Tabor 1
1960 Retired: Mt. Tabor 3
1963 Oak Grove 1
1964 Gastonia 1
McLEAN, DANIEL HUGH
1942 Daytona Beach, Fla. 2
1944 Gainesville, Fla. 1
1953 Lumberton 4
1957 Hamlet 4
1961 Forest City, Union Mills . . 3
1964 Lexington, Chestnut Gr. . . 1
1965 Died
McLEOD, EDWARD MORTON
1925 Catawba Ct 2
104
FOURTH SESSION
1927 Catawba Ct 1
1928 Lowesville, McPelah,
St. James 4
1932 Shelby, Brooks 3
1935 Forest City, Shelby 2
1937 Bowmore, Mt. Zion 4
1941 Ramseur 3
1944 Leaksville . . 5
1949 Bowmore, Piney Gr 5
1954 Johns, Piney Grove 2
1956 Bolton 1
1957 Retired
MCNELL, KENNETH C.
1959 In School
1960 Ennis 1
1961 Mexia: Union Mem 1
1962 Trfd. to C. West Conf.:
Des Moines 3
1965 So. Iowa (Merger) Des
Moines and Burns — 1
1966 Trfd., N. C.-Va. Conf.:
Raleigh 1
1967 Lexington, Chestnut Gr.,
Brooks . . . 1
McRAE, ROBERT B.
1922 Goldsboro 1
1923 Ramseur 6
1928 Franklin 1
1929 Winston-Salem:
Mt. Pleasant 1
1930 Hamlet 9
1939 Charlotte 1
1940 Supt. : Laurinburg Dist. . . 5
1945 High Point: St. Mark's 5
1950 Reidsville 2
1952 Forest City 2
1954 Fayetteville 8
1962 Saints' Home 1
1963 Maston 2
1966 Died
MAYFIELD, LE MON
1936 Randleman 2
1938 Guilford, Kernersville .... 1
1940 Marion 2
1941 High Point, Brooks Mem. 10
1951 Supt. : Winston Dist. . . 6
1957 Winston-Salem; St. Paul 11
MEDFORD, BOOKER T.
(Supply Until 1959)
1960 Staunton 4
1963 Asbury, Richmond 2
1965 Forest City 1
1966 Withdrawn
MOORE, DOUGLAS E.
1950 In School
1953 Ramseur 1
1954 Leaksville 2
1956 Exec. Sec, Durham 4
1960 Missionary 7
1967 Arlington 1
MURPHY, MILES, JR.
1956 Laurinburg Ct 3
1959 Rhyne Mem.; Red Springs 5
1964 Chaplain U. S. Air Force . . 3
1967 Chaplain V. A. Hospital . . 1
NeSMITH, SAMUEL EVANS
1960 In School, Gammon
Seminary
1961 Warren St. ; Mt. Carmel ... 1
1962 Warren St.; Mt. Carmel,
Ex. Sec. Bd. of Ed 2
1964 Raleigh 2
1966 Alexandra 2
PANNELL, JAMES M.
1960 Faith 2
1962 Lynchburg 5
1967 Richmond: Asbury 1
PATTERSON, GEORGE W.
1923 Boone 1
1926 Mooresville, Mayhew 2
1928 Marion 1
1929 Forest City 1
1930 Wilkesboro 2
1932 West Asheville 1
1933 Wilkesboro 1
1934 Catawba 2
1936 Newton, Conover 3
1939 Statesville, Phila 1
1940 King's Mt. Ct. 1
1941 Elkin 3
1944 John's Beaver Dam 2
1946 John's Beauty Spot 1
1947 Rowland, Salem 2
1949 Mooresville 8
1957 Kings Mountain 2
1959 Phila., Brooks 2
1961 Retired, Denver 2
1963 No Appointment
PATTERSON, JOHN JETHRO
1940 Fayetteville 3
1943 Hamlet 7
1950 High Point, St. Mark's . . 10
1960 Supt. : Winston District ... 5
1965 Supt: Western District .... 1
1966 Hickory 2
PHELPS, GRANDISON M., SR.
1918 Reidsville 7
1925 Supt. : Wilmington Dist. . . 5
1930 Winston-Salem : St. Paul . . 7
1937 Supt. : Western District ... 6
1943 Charlotte, Simpson Mem. . . 2
1945 Greensboro, St. Matthews . 5
1950 Supt. : Greensboro Dist. ... 6
1957 Union Mem., Greensboro . . 6
1963 Retired: Mt. Tabor 5
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PHILLIPS, H. W.
1941 Penhook, Boon Mill .
1942 Saints Home, Winston-
Salem
1953 St. Andrews, Winston-
Salem
1957 Supt. : Western Dist. . .
1963 Hickory, Conover
1966 Died
PORTE, RAWLE S.
1945-1949 Seminary
1949-1964 British Meth.
Conference
1964 Washington Conference
1965 N.C.-Va. Conf. Asbury in
Rich
1967 Staunton
SELLERS, LISTON, JR.
1 1957 Zion Hill; Laughlin and
Ramseur . . .... 3
11 1960 Raleigh Cross Road and
Bass Chapel 1
4 1961 Bass Chapel 2
6 1962 Elkin-Jonesville Circuit 3
3 1965 Mt. Pleasant (Winston-
Salem) 2
1967 St. Mark 1
SHARPE, RALPH DAVID
1943 Lumberton, New Zion 6
• 15 1949 Maxton 1
1 1950 Hickory 12
1963 Supt.: Western District .. 2
. 2 1965 St. Andrews 1%
. 1 1966 Died
POWELL, THEODORE ALLEN
1958 In School, Gammon Sem.
1959 Catawba Circuit 1
1960 Forest City 1
1961 Phil., Brooks 4
1965 Hamlet 1
1966 Cool Springs 1
RENICK, CARL
1963 Covington 3
1966 Lexington— B.V 2
ROBINSON, AVERY E., JR.
1956 Franklin
1958 Shelby, Brooks
1959 Shelby, Grace Mission
1960 Shelby
1961 Shelby, Bessemer
1965 Saints Home, Winston-
Salem
ROBINSON, WILLIAM THOMAS
1966 Trfd. to N. C. Va. Conf.:
Forest City 2
ROYSTER, WILLIAM R., SR.
1946 Statesville Circuit 1
1947 Addie Chapel, Glades
Old Fort 1
1948 Marion 7
1955 Shelby Circuit 1
1956 South Greensboro 3
1959 Saints Home, Winston-
Salem 2
1961-1962 Fayetteville 1
1963 Lumberton 2
1965 Elkin 3
SAWYER, JAMES FRANKLIN
1943 Sanford Ct 4
194? Johns, Beauty Spot 6
1953 Rowland 7
1960 Rowland, Salem 4
1964 Wall Chapel & Mt. Zion . . 3
1967 Cool Springs 1
SHARPE, ROBERT C.
1933 Thomasville, East, Midway 4
1937 High Point, Brooks Mem. 4
1941 Browning, St. James . . 3
1944 Greensboro, Northwest 2
1946 Durham 4
1950 Warren St., Mt. Carmel,
Greensboro 4
1954 Supt.: Laurinburg District 6
1960 Lenoir . . 3
1963 Saints Home, Winston-
Salem . . 2
1965 Retired: Staunton. Va 1
SHIVERS, JAMES HENRY
1957 Wilmington 10
SMITH, HARRY ALEXANDER
1954 Salisbury 1
1955 Advance 3
1958 Madison Charge 6
1964 Leaksville 4
STRICKLAND, CLARENCE E.
1941 Hickory Bend
1943 Goldsboro 1
1944 Phila., St. Peters .... 1
1945 Shelby 10
1955 Charlotte, Simpson 11
1967 Hamlet 1
STOWE, ARTHUR WILLIS
1942 Boone Ct.
1943 Cornelius Ct 2
1945 Lowesville Ct.
1958 Newton & Granite Falls 3
1961 Maxton & Bolton . . 2
1963 Cool Springs & Phila.
1964 Mooresville .... . . 4
TATE, GODFREY
LAFAYETTE, JR.
1955 Admitted on trial to
Wash. Conf.
1955 In School
106
FOURTH SESSION
1957 Ronceverte-White Sulphur
Springs Charge 3
1960 Norfolk 1
1961 Trfd. to N. C. Conf.
1961 Norfolk 7
TARPLEY, THOMAS CLEMINE
1943 Walnut, Walkertown 2
1945 Chestnut Grove 1
1946 Chestnut Grove,
Laughlin Memorial 7
1953 Randleman, Kernersville . . 1
1954 Shady Grove, Cox Chapel . 3
1957 Collins Grove 3
1960 Ramseur 2
1962 Brown Summit 3
1965 Empire Vh
1966 Died
TOWNSEND, SAMUEL L.
1940 Phila., New Zion. 1
1941 Newport News,
Pleasant Ridge 2
1943 Greensboro, Northwest ... 1
1944 Wilmington 1
1945 Reidsville 3
1948 Lenoir 13
1960 Supt.: Laurinburg Dist. ... 4
1965 Laurinburg 3
THOMAS, LONNIE
1962 In School
1964 Woodbine Ct. Ga. Conf. . . 2
1966 Received in N. C.-Va.
Conf.: Roanoke-Salem,
Buchanan 2
TYSON, CHARLES EDWARD
1958 Wilkesboro Circuit 2
1962 Durham 5
1967 S. C. Dept. of Cor 1
WHITTED, JUDGE
1963 St. James 1
1964 Trinity 1
1965 Died
WILLIAMS, THADDEUS
1952 In School
1953 Williamston 3
1956 Pickens 2
1958 South Greenville 2
1960 Level Green 5
1965 Bennettsville Ct 1
1966 Trfd. to N. C.-Va. Conf.:
Leemont 2
DATE DUE
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